Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit is the fourth stop on an eight-city tour for Birendra and Nepal's queen, Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah. The royal couple will also meet President Reagan and other government officials in Washington, tour Epcot Center in Orlando, attend a Cowboy-Redskins game in Dallas, and visit Mayor Andrew Young in Atlanta...
GIVEN ALL THIS, why did 53 percent of college presidents still not name Harvard in the top five? If it was a joke, we, like Queen Victoria, are not amused. But college presidents aren't funny--not intentionally. We must assume they meant it. This is terrifying. If college presidents believe Harvard's not up there, what else don't they believe? Is not John Paul II one of the five leading Catholics? Is not the Pacific Ocean one of the five largest bodies of water on the West Coast? Is not the moon one of the five largest celestial...
...minute Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip stepped out of their British Airways TriStar at New Delhi's Palam airport, they were greeted by marching bands, a 21-gun salute and officers arrayed in spotless finery. As a Mercedes six-door limousine ferried the royal visitors through the chrysanthemum-lined streets, welcoming banners fluttered before them and wizened shopkeepers craned their necks to wave at perhaps the world's richest woman. On the last leg of an 18-day, three-nation swing through Africa and Asia, the Queen made it clear that royalty can still command loyalty...
...Queen's distinctly informal role fits the summit's deliberately improvised format. Almost the only rule of Commonwealth summits is that there are no written rules and no formal votes. Instead, the leaders, who represent one quarter of the world's people, gather for a week-long discussion about matters of mutual concern. The summit's closed-door sessions are conducted on a first-name basis and, of course, in English. Actions are taken only by consensus...
...subjects on which the members are mostly in agreement: the independence of Namibia from South Africa (which the Commonwealth supports), and the declaration of an independent state two weeks ago by ethnic Turks in Commonwealth-member Cyprus (which the body deplores). But one unifying factor would be missing: the Queen, after winding up her visit to India, returned to London at week...