Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clutching the hand of his distraught mother, Queen Frederika, Greece's new King Constantine, 23, headed a funeral cortege that included five reigning monarchs and scores of princes, Presidents and Premiers. At Metropolitan Cathedral, 50 bearded Greek Orthodox bishops in white and gold robes assisted the Primate of Greece in the 50-minute ceremony. As the service ended, Frederika kissed her husband's coffin, then broke into uncontrollable sobs...
Outside the church nearly 1,000,000 people clogged the streets, at times halting the procession until police could clear a passage. Cheers greeted Constantine, the bereaved Queen Mother, and former U.S. President Harry Truman who, 17 years ago to the day, had proposed the Truman Doctrine that saved Greece from Communism. But the loudest applause went to Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios. Detaching himself from the procession as it waited to convey the body to burial at Tatoi Palace, north of Athens, Makarios walked slowly around Constitution Square, waving at the crowd and acknowledging their cries for Enosis-union...
...think I feel better," he said. A few hours later, he died. Her eyes red-rimmed from lack of sleep, Queen Frederika kissed her dead husband, then tearfully turned to her son, now King Constantine II, and said: "May you reign with his benediction...
...city of Solomon's time (961-922 B.C.) lie many earlier cities. While probing in a slightly lower part of the mound, Dr. Pritchard stumbled by accident upon his most spectacular find: a mud-walled tomb with the skeleton of a woman of high station, perhaps a local queen. She lay with rich grave goods still around her-500 beads of carnelian and 75 of gold, silver pins, a silver chain, four ivory boxes, an ivory spoon with a human head carved on it, and many objects of bronze and pottery. She must have died about...
...Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...