Word: queens
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Draping the building in British flags, Lampoon editors led the crowd in a rendition of "God Save the Queen," vowed to "remove the heel of American oppression" and "cast off the chains of democracy." The proceeded to heckle and beat a Lampoon editor who refused to join the revolution...
Lord Runcie of Cuddesdon--who is second only to Queen Elizabeth II in the Church of England--delivered a sermon entitled "How Awful Is This Place!" before a packed church...
...knows the Queen. They're tight. Think about that," he said...
...before the blast, the grownups had pursued a remarkable will to die. Over and over they fiddled with three tanks of propane that were hooked to an electric burner and a timing device. As many as four times, they swallowed sedatives, then arranged themselves in a cross around a queen-size bed, only to rise in bleary frustration when the detonator fizzled. Finally, they blew themselves to kingdom come. For them that would be the star Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major, nine light-years from Quebec. According to the doctrines of the Solar Temple, they will reign there forever...
...benefits of cloning technology may be great, but the potential for misuse is beyond frightening. How long before every petty dictator, multimillionaire industrialist, king, queen and drug lord has a clone or two made of himself or herself, then raised in confinement, so that when a heart, lung or kidney gives out, a spare is just a phone call away? How much further will this cheapen human life? STEVE GONTO Savannah, Georgia...