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Word: queenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth (83,673 tons) completed the 3,007 nautical miles from Ambrose Light to Bishop Rock at an average 29.73 knots-her fastest eastbound crossing since the war. The Queen's No. I passenger, Sir Winston Churchill, expressed himself content with the passage, and manfully concealed his disappointment in the outcome of his talks with President Eisenhower. "We have not entirely failed," said he upon landing, pink-faced and zesty, at Southampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clash of Opinion | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...again with another security agent (James Arness) and a beautiful female scientist (Joan Weldon) to hunt the horrors out. The hunters pump the anthill full of cyanide gas, and then go stalking through a giant welter of tunnels in search of survivors. Two queen ants, they discover, have flown the nest. Aghast, the entomologist rushes to Washington to tell an emergency meeting of VIPs that if the queens succeed in breeding a new generation, "man will probably be extinct within nine months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Monsters | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Wearing sweet-smelling jasmine and a gay sarong, a Burmese beauty queen welcomed Chou En-lai to Rangoon last week, on the second stage of his triumphal swing around Asia. Thousands of well-organized Chinese flourished pictures of Mao Tse-tung, chanted Communist slogans and scattered rose petals as Chou drove into town from the airport. But fewer than 500 Burmese bothered to line the street, and it seemed that Rangoon, 1,100 miles nearer Dienbienphu than India's New Delhi, was not quite so enthusiastic about its Red China visitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Slightly Less Cordial | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...London, Princess Margaret, glittering in a diamond necklace and tiara, beamed warmly at the cheering crowd as her coach rolled up to Buckingham Palace, where Britain's royalty wined and dined Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise, who were making the first state visit of Swedish monarchs to England in 46 years. On her white tulle gown Margaret wore a miniature portrait of another handsome lady, her sister Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...terrorists' threat to kill Britain's Queen restricted her visit here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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