Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Today those otherwise indestructible pieces, long derided by the English as "chocolate" (they are Hershey brown), still cost less than glued-and-screwed contemporary furniture-but probably not for long: already a Victorian sleigh bed sells for as much as $30,000. Early American furniture, particularly colonial adaptations of Queen Anne, Chippendale and Hepplewhite, are worth far more than 18th century English pieces of the same style...
Dubbed the Queen of Death Row by one appreciative convict, Morris, 49, a mother of four and a staunch opponent of capital punishment, is death penalty coordinator for the Georgia affiliate of the A.C.L.U. She normally does not start hunting for lawyers until after the defendant has been convicted and his automatic appeal has gone to the state supreme court. Once that appeal has been heard, the state no longer has an obligation to provide a lawyer, leaving most of the condemned on their own if they wish to seek post-conviction remedies in state and federal courts; most lack...
Describing a tour of Europe, she lights upon the Queen of England, "the whitest woman in the world. She makes all the rest of us look like the Third World." Where, Bette asks sweetly, with only the faintest hint of bitchery, does Her Majesty get her hats? Pretending to sew, she conjures up a whole line of milliners in the basement of Buckingham Palace, threading needles for their monarch at that very moment. Then, she notes, there is that noble equestrienne, Princess Anne. How would Anne answer if someone asked how old she was? Bette wonders. Without a word...
British imperial rule was temporarily brought back to Africa last week by a tall, well-fleshed Englishman named Christopher Soames. A police band played God Save the Queen as the 59-year-old diplomat, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill, stepped briskly from his Royal Air Force VC10 onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport. Lord Soames thus be came the first British Governor of Rhodesia since the colony's rebellious white minority illegally declared independence 14 years...
...last time to rescind former Prime Minister Ian Smith's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence and return the colony to British sovereignty under its former name of Southern Rhodesia. The Union Jack will not wave over Salisbury for long: after next spring's elections, the Queen's proconsul will hand over power to the new leaders of an independent Zimbabwe...