Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much more activity there might have been without Watergate is difficult to measure. For all the White House claims to what its critics have seen as regal power, the Nixon Administration's domestic philosophy has never been activist. Quite the opposite; the President has often proclaimed a desire to reduce Washington's role in national life-or, as he once more vividly put it, to "get Big Government off your back and out of your pocket...
Secretariat-the name has a kind of bureaucratic resonance. But no label could be more deceptive. The regal thoroughbred that carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...
...even above world market scales. Rugs were up 200% over a year ago, and antiques and jade are going for 40% to 300% more than last year. The price of mao-tai, the potent millet liquor, has soared to $28 a bottle-more than twice the price of Chivas Regal...
...ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler's progeny. And if Sham is not the horse to prove that, perhaps it will be longer shots like Royal and Regal or Forego...
...creative flair, would have us die first. But His Highness finally arrives, preceded by a chorus of minstrels who will officially record the event in verse and song. The eager public, by now accustomed to royal secrecy, suddenly roars its approval. And there naked amid the applause, a regal smile stitched to his blue lips, stands the Emperor, shivering...