Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roused by the skirling reveille of the Queen's Own Piper, overnight guest Sir Alec Douglas-Home breakfasted alone in his Balmoral Castle suite overlooking Scotland's swift-running River Dee, then went downstairs to wait upon his sovereign. Promptly at 10, Queen Elizabeth, trailed by two Welsh Corgis, entered the salon. The Tory Prime Minister bowed and presented the commission that Britain has been awaiting these many months: that the present Parliament be dissolved by proclamation and a new Parliament be elected on Thursday...
...should be a cold day somewhere when the reigning American sex queen is a middle-aged housewife, but that is the situation now. Hollywood's highest flying skirts and tightest slacks now belong to Carroll Baker. Through simooms of expensive publicity, she occupies the place of Marilyn Monroe and all the Lana Turners, Jean Harlows, and Theda Baras before...
...Athens drew 9,000 listeners. At the Lucerne Festival, the audience awarded the orchestra such a thunderous ovation that the festival management broke a longstanding rule and allowed an encore. The Pittsburghers' triumphant week was climaxed by a tempestuous reception for its Edinburgh Festival debut, with the Queen leading the applause...
Next to papal infallibility, the biggest barrier to Catholic-Protestant unity is the humble Jewish girl who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. By popular piety and papal decree, Roman Catholics have gradually elevated Mary to the queen of heaven, born free of sin and assumed bodily into heaven. Marian "maximalists" even yearn for the day when a Pope will promulgate new dogmas that in union with her son she is redemptress of the human race and mediatrix of God's grace to men. For centuries, Protestants have reacted by condemning Catholic "Mariolatry" as paganism and ignoring the Virgin...
...three hours the Rumanian President alternated his attentions like clockwork-15 minutes to Revisionist Mikoyan, 15 minutes to Factionalist Li-while his two honored guests pointedly ignored each other. Nothing, not even the considerable efforts of the host's raven haired daughter Lica, who is a Communist movie queen, could make them even look at each other...