Word: queened
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Eleven African queen bees and swarms of half-African drones and workers escaped from a Sao Paulo laboratory in 1957, and Brazil has been pained about it ever since. Imported because of their high honey productivity, the African bees were not intended to be released until they had their foul tempers bred out of them. But by 1965 the bees had bred, spread and were obeying their instinct to attack large animals without provocation (TIME, Sept 24, 1965). By the latest count, ten people, hundreds of cattle and horses, and whole flocks of chickens have been killed in unprovoked attacks...
Learned with Hornets. Now Edmun-Campello, secretary of agriculture for the state of Rio de Janeiro, has begun a new campaign. Importing Italian queen bees from the U.S. and Mexi-Campello plans to stage a series of apiarian palace coups. Wherever he can find a hive, he plans to kill the African queen and replace her with an already fertilized Italian. When new Italian queens, workers and drones are born more Africans will be replaced until, Campello hopes, the bad bees will be bred out of Brazil...
PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is really a series of dramatied snapshots of a woman. As sensitively played by Dorothy Tutm, Victoria Regina seems only incidentally the ruler of an empire, and chiefly the ruled wife of her beloved consort Albert...
PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is part dear-diary journal and part dusty political imbroglios, but mostly a record of a woman who also happened to be Queen Victoria. Dorothy Tutin wears the role like a tiara, moving from a spoiled child of power to a yielding, sensuous wife to a desolate widow with the fatigue of existence in her voice...
...earl first fell in with moviefolk back in the 1930s, when they donated movies to entertain the crews on Royal Navy warships, so it was only natural to return the favor by helping out at a fund-raising drive for show business's Variety Clubs International charities. Queen Victoria's great-grandson found Manhattan's haute cuisine smashing good, and said the same for the city's low life, capping a party-filled stay with a visit to Greenwich Village's Electric Circus...