Word: regales
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Money made as regal a figure as Jack Nicklaus fling a putter a few weeks back in his alltime display of rapture over an eight-footer, not to win the grand slam, not even to clinch a 20th major championship, but to publicize a condominium development in Arizona at a made-for-TV golf tournament. Ben Hogan would never have wet his pants over such a glory, but there are levels of ego in this. When Bjorn Borg slipped merely to second, ahead of everyone but John McEnroe, Borg had to go. Eleven years removed from his No. 1 rating...
Fire charred the paint job and gutted the interior of the white 1974 Buick Regal sedan, which was parked on Flagg St. between Mather tower and Peabody Terrace. No injuries were reported...
...court lacks "a great articulator" in the mold of Holmes or Louis Brandeis, says Federal Judge Simon Rifkind. Burger has not emerged as a strong voice. Courtly and white-maned, almost regal in appearance, he seems more comfortable with his ceremonial and administrative duties than at deciding cases. At the court's weekly conferences, he sometimes strikes other Justices as ill prepared and indecisive. When Burger changed his vote repeatedly in one case, Justice Byron White reportedly threw down his pencil and declared, "Jesus Christ, here we go again...
After the birth was announced, British bookmakers counted the odds at 6 to 4 in favor of a George, with Henry considered a 50-to-1 long shot. But Henry it was. Henry Charles Albert David, to be regal about it; Prince Harry, as he has already been dubbed by Britons one and all. The third in line to the throne wasted no time in the hospital. A glowing Prince Charles and Diana took him home just a day after his arrival. Not to worry about an o'erhasty departure though. Just as it does for every other British...
...four-year drought. The guerrilla war in the Sahara continues to cost at least $ 1 million a day. Two-fifths of the population is below poverty line, according to World Bank figures, and thousands live in makeshift huts in the increasingly swollen cities. Meanwhile, Hassan maintains a regal lifestyle. This week, for instance, he is host to a lavish celebration of a daughter's wedding in Fez, at one of nine sumptuous palaces...