Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gyges owed his accession to a strange whim of his predecessor, Kind Kandaules, who forced Gyges to gaze secretly at the queen in the in the nude. The queen noticed Gyges, however, and told him he must either kill her husband and become king, or himself be killed. He killed the busband and became king...
...crystal coach drawn by six white horses, Queen Elizabeth rode in state last week to the Palace of Westminster for the ceremonial opening of a new Parliament. Seldom has that arcane ritual seemed more at odds with reality. Elizabeth's "most gracious speech from the throne," written for the monarch by the first Labor government in her eleven-year reign, was a catalogue of welfare statism that immediately challenged the Tories' disposition to let the new administration "play itself in." Gambling its slender, five-seat majority in the House of Commons, Labor declared its determination to renationalize...
...five solemn days the chiefs listened to official promises of increased pay, paid tribute to their importance, cursed Rhodesia's suppressed black nationalist parties as "wild dogs and hyenas," and occasionally inquired why the Queen hadn't come down from London. At the end of it all they learned that they had just voted 622 to 0 "to cut the strings that tie us to Britain." No Tea Party. That was enough for Harold Wilson. In a final ultimatum to Smith that was also released to the press to make sure that Rhodesians got the message, he warned...
...jart! Be-jart!" thundered the audience in Brussels' Royal Circus. And right there and beating time to the chants, were Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. For French Choreographer Maurice Béjart, 37, the royal welcome was sweet relief from the catcalls, fistfights and lawsuits that have swirled in the wake of his iconoclastic creations of the last few years. Last week's premiere was his most ambitious production yet: a ballet to the music of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
...Kipling era, hopelessly out of keeping with the age of Kenyatta, Attenborough turns a cliché into a memorable character sketch-etched most sharply when he raises his glass in a brusque farewell toast to the glories of Empire, then hurls drink and all at a portrait of the Queen...