Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filled in the word Negroes or blacks, you flunk. Please accept a year's supply of condescending smiles. But if you wrote "women," or even "females," you are right on, grooved, with it, Queen...
...Surprised as I am to find myself in agreement with The Rev. Billy Graham, I must concur with his contention that the flag [July 6] is much like the Queen of England. It is an anachronism. In an age where our greatest need is the development of a humanitarian, internationalistic spirit of unity, many Americans identify with a chauvinistic symbol that not only separates them from compatriots but also from our brothers and sisters in other lands...
...less effective in Britain itself, where a collapse in labor negotiations closed the nation's 40 major ports as 47,000 dockworkers walked off their jobs in the first nationwide dock strike since the massive general strike of 1926. Rushing home from her ten-day visit to Canada, Queen Elizabeth II signed a state-of-emergency proclamation less than ten minutes after her arrival at Buckingham Palace. Armed with that authority, the new Tory government prepared to call out some 36,500 troops to move perishables, medicines and mail at deserted ports from Southampton to Glasgow, where more than...
Eccentric Roots. Despite her disavowal, British-born Jessica Mitford, 52, has become a queen among U.S. muckrakers. The ingredients of her art include dry wit, sharp observation and a talent for pricking pretense in manners, morals and mercenary matters. She has been in the U.S. since 1939 and now lives in Oakland, Calif., with her second husband, Lawyer Robert Treuhaft. But she remains a quintessential Mitford, the offspring of an eccentric English baron whose six daughters were celebrated for their madcap escapades in a quarter-century of headlines...
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