Word: regal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen Mother, 83, can handle a cue when the occasion calls for it. While on a three-day tour of the Channel Islands, she popped into a young people's center in Jersey. There she was cheekily challenged to a game of pool by Karl Megaw, 17. The regal reply: "Certainly." As she lined up the shot, she murmured, "Wouldn't it be awful if I missed?," then proceeded to render the question academic as she slammed the ball into the side pocket. "I offered her a shot because I heard she played," said Megaw afterward. "You could...
...discovery should be no surprise, even to those inured to the pandering platitudes proffered by Hart. Mondale, and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. Cuomo's credo is defiantly traditional and defiantly conventional. He states in the regal third-person: "...HE WILL [govern] ON THE BASIS OF TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES, WHICH HE HAS CONVERTED INTO SPECIFIC IDEAS THAT ARE TRADITIONAL AND DEMOCRATIC." Cuomo's vision shines brightly because it is so forthright--government can and should help those who can't help themselves--and so innocent, unsullied by the ravages wrought by deficit spending and the gimmicky neo-liberalism developed...
About 16 students look him up on the offer, drinking a bottle of Chivas Regal from styrofoam cups in Cox's office. He spoke about his early days in teaching, as a practicing lawyer and why he became interested in labor...
...drops to a conspiratorial tone. He has the timing of a delightful dinner partner. This personal side, relaxed and humorous and even charming, does not often seep through to the public. When he walks back in the plane to swap stories with reporters, he hides a glass of Chivas Regal handed to him by an aide, joking, "Oops, they better not see this...
...dressed in white shirt and blue trousers, he hurries down the aisle like a schoolboy late for the class-play tryouts, afraid the best parts may have already been cast. But when he mounts the bare stage-its only prop a battered chair that once had pretensions to the regal-a sense of awe seems to overcome...