Word: regaled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guard was right. There was something regal about Hakim's presence. Even as he lay in a jail ward bed, a torn hospital night shirt hung loosely about him like a toga, his uncombed hair greying at the temples and behind his ears. Hakim exuded an easy hegemony. However, it was not the regality of a king at court, but of a condemned king held in the Tower...
...hour the Shah, noticing some royal yawns and glazed eyes, mercifully rose from his chair and almost everybody took the welcome exit cue. The guests trooped back to their tents and had a whole morning to sleep before getting up for lunch, a parade and another dinner with the regal couple before flying home...
...Regal Cheek. The controversy flared after an article by Richard Crossman, minister in the former Labor government and a member of the Queen's Privy Council, appeared in the New Statesman, a left-wing weekly. Headed THE ROYAL TAX AVOIDERS, the article with uncommon bile lashed out at Queen Elizabeth for requesting an increase in the $1,140,000 royal budget* while continuing to enjoy "a complex system of tax privileges and exemptions," many never fully disclosed, on her private fortune. "One has to admire her truly regal cheek," said the New Statesman article, questioning whether Britons ought...
...magnetic presence that holds an audience in thrall. Unlike most U.S. actors, he has an unforced command of the Shakespearean line. His delivery is intelligent, inflectively exact, and he conducts his voice as if it were an orchestra of verse. Chamberlain is inordinately handsome and bears himself with regal authority which makes him seem all the more a potential new Barrymore...
...twice as much or more than their foreign counterparts. To help offset the wage differential-and keep American passengers' fares out of foreign coffers -the Government since 1936 has paid a generous annual subsidy on each U.S. passenger ship for the first 20 years of its life. The regal United States, for example, received $12 million a year from the Maritime Administration. The ship still ran in the red, and was retired last June...