Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death-dealing capabilities, the Carronade had some eye-opening surprises. To make life afloat more livable (and more attractive to recruits), the Navy spent $6,000,000, turned Raymond Loewy and his designers loose on the plans. The result is hardly the equivalent of first-class accommodations aboard the Queen Elizabeth, but it is a far cry from the older rocket ships...
...moments of separation, Tito began to enjoy his state of Kremlin outlawry and his gay life as the world's most eligible political bachelor. He has been courted by the West, wooed by the East, consulted by the neutralists. The peasant's son has been wined by queens, dined by prime ministers, taken tiger-hunting by a maharaja. His uniforms have grown gaudier and bigger over the paunch, his laugh more easy. Anthony Eden, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson have called on him. He has called on Queen Elizabeth, presented a keg of slivovitz to Winston Churchill...
...been for the miniature cannon used to boom greetings to passing craft from her family's yacht, Carmelite Janvier might have lived out her days as a typical New Orleans socialite. Her sisters all made their marks as debutantes, and one was selected to be queen of carnival. But one day, when nine-year-old Carmelite was playing on board, the cannon accidentally went off. It destroyed one eye and nearly blinded the other. It also left Carmelite Janvier disfigured for life...
...Drees let the argument get to a vote, and Parliament doggedly overruled him 50-48 (with two members absent). There was nothing else to do. Premier Willem Drees, the ex-stenographer who had run The Netherlands for six uninterrupted years on a welfare-state platform, trotted off to the Queen to resign...
Died. James Agee, 45. novelist (The Morning Watch), poet (Permit Me Voyage), screen writer (The Quiet One, The African Queen), onetime magazine writer (for FORTUNE) and cinema critic (for TIME); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...