Word: royal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mating the old family mare, Better Queen, to a vagabond called Charlie Coast, Hayward bred Concession in the backyard at Nissequogue, N.Y., weaned her, broke her and mucked stalls for $6 an hour to keep her at Belmont. When the Jockey Club rejected the grand name Hayward first submitted, Royal Prerogative, Katrina and her leggy bay conceded their plainness with grace and humor. Concession would have made it to the races this month...
...hoped to become the architect of a successful Middle East peace agreement involving Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as his own kingdom. But the Hashemite monarch has seen his plans crumble in the face of P.L.O. intransigence. Happily Hussein's designs are doing better at the royal palace in Amman. The King, 50, and Queen Noor, 34, the former Lisa Halaby of Washington, recently welcomed a fourth child into their fold when Princess Raiyah al Hussein, or Banner of Hussein, joined the Princes Hamzah, 5, and Hashem, 4, and Princess Iman, 2. The queen, who earned...
...technical gifts allow him to toy with uncertainty and shuffle time with deceptive ease. A good deal of Peru's mournful history and wretched present are economically conveyed. Leaving the Museum of the Inquisition, the narrator is confronted by a score of beggars. "They constitute a sort of grotesque royal court of tatters, grime, and scabs," he observes. "As soon as they see me, they stretch out their black-nailed hands and beg. Violence behind me and hunger in front of me. Here, on these stairs, my country summarized...
...renowned ballerina. Last week at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, audiences were once again clapping for Margot Fonteyn in Sleeping Beauty. This time, however, Dame Margot, 66, had joined the cast of the 19th century ballet in the nondancing mime role of the stately Queen. The Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet production is currently touring North and South America, and Fonteyn agreed to do two Miami performances because it was not far from her home in Panama. Her initial entrance prompted enthusiastic applause from the house, and there was awe onstage as well. In the middle of the "Rose Adagio...
Over the past four decades, three Royal Commissions have concluded that the unions are largely responsible for Fleet Street's chronic money woes. Terminal may be a better adjective: on gross revenues of nearly $2 billion last year, Britain's 17 major papers made about $34 million in profits, nearly all of it accounted for by Murdoch's racy Sun, the country's largest daily (circ. 4.1 million...