Word: queened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Focusing new attention on Berlin and the ugly Wall that divides it and Germany will be next month's visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Germans are doing everything to ensure an impeccable reception. Last week the German Dancing Teachers Association offered its suggestions on proper conduct. The teachers recommended clapping and cries of "Königin Elizabeth," with curtsying as "optional." Just in case a relative of the Kaisers might induce any other anachronisms, the association nervously suggested that "the word 'Heil' as an expression of joy should be avoided for reasons of tact...
Horticulturally speaking, a Virginia azalea and a Texas rose aren't even kissing kin. But showbizwise, what casting! So Norfolk's International Azalea Festival set a date with Washington's Luci Baines Johnson, and not only got a gracious four-day queen but an unexpected visit from L.B.J. in the bargain. Daddy may be busy these days, but he could hardly use Viet Nam as an alibi when it came to crowning Her Majesty Luci Baines Azalea...
Still unknown is the location of Pella's great palace-the place where Queen Olympias gave birth to Alexander the Great, after dreaming, says Plutarch, that a "thunderbolt fell upon her body, which kindled a great fire...
...feel as though I've just become a piece of public property," said Jacqueline Kennedy after her husband was elected President of the U.S. Today, 17 months after his death, she still belongs to the people like some uncrowned queen. Now that her period of public mourning is past, she has been gradually trying to resume life as a private person. She has gingerly ventured forth to the theater and an occasional discothèque, taken her children skiing and to the circus. But she is still trailed wherever she goes by the watchful eye of the Secret Service...
...from France, and glasses and glasses of champagne, all of it imported from France. Jacqueline was still dancing at 5 a.m. But for Jackie, the pleasures of private relaxation can never be wholly separated from the imperatives of public duty. This month she will fly to England to help Queen Elizabeth dedicate a memorial to her late husband at Runnymede, where King John accepted the Magna Carta...