Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher's announcement last week of new elections caught even some of her closest aides by surprise. But once she had made the decision, she wasted not a moment. By breakfast time Monday, she had informed her Cabinet. Shortly after noon, she drove to Buckingham Palace to tell Queen Elizabeth II. Within the hour, the news was out: the Prime Minister had called general elections for June 9, nearly a year before her five-year term...
Above all, Allard Lowenstein was not a quitter. He never seemed to stand a chance, but always continued the fight, often with success one could never have imagined. It seems fitting that, as one tribute notes, one of his favorite, film moments was a scene from The African Queen in which Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart emerge from an unnavigable jungle river. Told that the stream is clearly impassible, the feisty Hepburn raises her head and replies. "Nevertheless..." It is a word that applies well to the tragically truncated life and efforts of Allard Lowenstein...
...dine on caviar and fresh Maine lobster. They will have plenty of room to stretch and stroll. Regent Air's 727 jets will carry a maximum of 36 travelers, in contrast to up to 130 on other airlines' 727 flights. Four private compartments on board will have queen-size beds. Says Regent Air President F. Michael Rogers: "It's a bit of a nostalgia trip. We want our flights to be as luxurious as train travel was 50 years ago." The price: $1,500 one way, compared with the standard first-class fare of $539 and economy...
...much of an interest in sex and fertility as there was in any other historical period. Here, however, it makes for one very boring book. Certainly, there are moments when you might raise an eyebrow or two, like when Menenhetet decides he wants to make it with the Queen Nefertirl...
...them, no I would find Nefertiri and I would fuck Her. The thought of my cock in Her, my agony in Her honey, my fatigue in Her wealth, my pride in Her royal privacy, my beating heart in Her sweet quiver, my peasant meet in the sauce of a Queen, my sword in Usermare's [the Pharsolt's] skin!--every high and low passion I ever felt came together, and my life was simple. I would fuck Her or die in the attempt...