Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asocial lives and spend their brief days on earth trying desperately to be diners rather than dinners. Some species, however, live in societies so well structured that humans might profit by emulating them. Honeybees group together in hives or colonies that might be compared to the human body?the queen, the only fertile female in a hive, functioning as the reproductive system; the workers, or sterile females, who gather nectar and feed the young, as the arms, legs and digestive tract; the drones, whose sole function is to fertilize the queen, as the heart that keeps the system going...
Anne Ives, as the 72-year-old victim Rebecca Nurse, is much too weak of voice; and she behaves more like a queen-dowager than a Salem villager. But Sarallen makes believable the somewhat comic Barbadian Negro slave, Tituba, who confesses to "conjuring" to save her neck...
...Queen of the mother country will appear in Washington, Philadelphia and elsewhere - though not until a couple of days after the main event. The elfin pop singer Elton John will come to a Boston Bicentennial concert tricked out as the Statue of Liberty in silver-sequined robe. Italian Americans in Rome, N.Y., will celebrate with one of history's biggest spaghetti dinners - 600 Ibs. of pasta and 600 Ibs. of sausage for a crowd of up to 3,000. For 76 consecutive hours, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will be on display...
...mark the occasion, a stream of dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth II and Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, will follow Spain's King Juan Carlos and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing in paying their respects in Washington. Many countries have sent gifts to the U.S., though there is nothing to compare with France's centennial present of the Statue of Liberty. Britain has loaned to the U.S. for a year a copy of the Magna Carta, signed in 1215. (In like spirit, an anonymous U.S. institution helped the British government last week...
...after 83 years, the nave and side aisles of the Washington Cathedral have finally been completed. To celebrate the achievement, Queen Elizabeth II and President Ford will dedicate the building known officially as the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. "On the Fourth of July America will celebrate her separation from Great Britain," says Dean Francis B. Sayre Jr., 61, Woodrow Wilson's grandson and a driving force behind the completion of the cathedral. "Then four days later, as there ought to be, there will be this celebration of our reconciliation." The dedication will include festive music...