Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take shape overnight. Just ask the 6,000 members of the Millennium Society. Founded by American college students, this group of youngsters first began dreaming and scheming about New Millennium's Eve back in 1979. The society, which boasts a worldwide membership, already has an agreement to charter the Queen Elizabeth 2 (assuming she's seaworthy) to transport 1,750 people from New York City to Alexandria, Egypt. By ground, the celebrators will continue on to the environs of Cairo to toast the millennium at the Great Pyramid of Giza...
Beautiful and talented southern belle. Rebuffed at the Miss Mississippi beauty pageant this summer, East returns to the hive as Queen of the Bee Club...
Also in attendance: an assortment of "experiments" clad in shiny radiation-proof suits, the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and Harvard's very own Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics and actual recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for physics...
Game 5 ended in pathos. Fischer's position became hopeless. Ten moves after he should have resigned, he moved his queen -- proud, powerful, the lion of the chessboard -- and retreated it to a corner where it cowered for protection behind three lowly pawns. As Jose Zalaquett, a top Chilean amateur player, put it, it was an almost physical retreat, a folding back into the fetal position, awaiting the final blow...
...this fairly heavy teaching load is an improvement over her three course per semester duties at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. At SIU, she was rewarded for her efforts teaching courses that ranged from Greek and Latin language to the history of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations with the Queen Award for Excellence in Teaching...