Word: realm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judges in London included such stalwarts of the realm as the Marchioness of Tavistock and former Cricketer Sir Learie Constantine, as well as experts from the colonies Broderick Crawford and Johnny Mathis. After they had observed all the forms parading across the red-carpeted stage of the Lyceum ballroom, they decided that once again, Miss United Kingdom was obviously Miss World. Regal (5 ft. 8 in., 37-24-37) Lesley Lang ley, 21, also obeyed the traditions by weeping prettily. "As there was a British winner last year," she gasped, "I did not think I should be chosen because there...
...fellow who escaped the stigma of being a high school dropout only by never dropping in, James R. Jones, 37-year-old Grand Dragon of the North Carolina realm of the Ku Klux Klan, lives mighty high on the hog. Though he never progressed past grammar school and has worked until recently as a lightning-rod salesman, Jones, who lives in Granite Quarry, N.C., drives a 1964 Cadillac as well as a 1964 station wagon, and seemingly has plenty of spending money. Soon, if all turns out as planned, Night Rider Jones will become a night flyer...
...Minister of Rhodesia stood tall and thin in the cavernous banquet hall of the Meikles Hotel. Before him sat the leaders of Salisbury society, formally attired. They had raised glasses in a toast to their Queen, but nodded approvingly when he warned that they might soon be leaving her realm. Now they listened silently as Ian Smith, in the flat, nasal accent of the settler, read from the eve-of battle speech of Henry V: "That he which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart. He today that sheds his blood with me, shall be my brother...
Most blacks now prefer to call their nation Zimbabwe, after the thousand-year-old ruins of a civilization of master artisans who apparently traded with places as far away as China. To Rhodes, however, it was Zambesia, realm of King Lobengula of the Matabeles, and coveted by the colossus as a link in his dream of an "allred route" of British colonies from Cape Town to Cairo. Rhodes's interest was not exclusively imperial: Explorer David Livingstone had returned from the area some 30 years before with tales of gold nuggets "as big as grains of wheat...
...From Realms Remote. In a dubious compliment, London's Daily Mirror described the new Rolls as having a "Mod look," and the Daily Telegraph exulted that the car "has stepped down from some realm remote from ordinary things and is now 'with it.' " But the style changes shocked and saddened traditionalists. The magazine Auto-Journal observed that by bringing the car "into the classic line of everyman's car, Rolls no longer strikes the eye and thus loses a great part of its singularity and originality." Paris' Le Monde regretted that "Rolls is losing little...