Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parade of athletes at Saturday's opening ceremonies moved in a hastily assembled new order as country after country-Algeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda-kept their flags furled and their representatives in the Olympic Village. This shortened the parade, which may have somewhat comforted Queen Elizabeth, who stood for an hour and 15 minutes as the banners passed in review. But the athletes involved were furious, driven to tears and even threats that they would renounce their citizenship; years of training had availed them little more than an unpack-pack-up look at the Olympic Village. There, late Saturday...
...Queen Elizabeth II formally opened the ceremonies and the gas-fired torch flared into life at trackside in Montreal's ribbed, concrete Olympic Stadium last week, the XXI Olympiad had already produced one record. For the first time since the modern Games began in 1896, a host country had imposed its own foreign policy on the event. The result was some indecorous sports brinkmanship that forced the angry withdrawal of a clearly ill-treated team from the island Republic of China, further strained U.S.-Canadian relations and left much of the remaining world bothered about what a West German...
...rides in the bumpy shuttle bus from the village to the stables two miles away. All security is so tight at the Games that Anne's presence has required no additional measures. Says one equestrian official: "You can hardly breathe for the armed guards. Anne could invite Queen Elizabeth to stay overnight and we wouldn't have to increase the security." Like it or not, the princess still gets some uncommon attention. Confesses a village authority: "The first time I saw her having breakfast in the cafeteria, I whirled around so fast I nearly dumped my tray...
...King and Joker, Dickinson's subject is the British royal family. Not the actual one, but another that the author invents, complete with idiosyncratic antecedents going back to Queen Victoria. King Victor II, a frustrated M.D., is on the throne. Married to Isabella of Spain, father of Prince Albert and Princess Louise, he lives in Buckingham Palace, where a practical joker is at work. The jokes seem harmless at first: a toad is placed on a covered plate for the King's breakfast (when the butler sees it, he faints). Then the jokes get nastier, ending...
...from Kensington, Md., who served three days with defeated anti-Communist forces in the Angolan civil war last year. Gearhart, along with three Britons, was executed in Angola, following a "war crimes" trial of 13 white mercenaries, in spite of pleas for the condemned by President Gerald Ford and Queen Elizabeth...