Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equals." He loved music, and entertained his friends by playing the harpsichord and the viola da gamba. "Liberal, thoughtless, and dissipated," he called himself, and admired (without particularly envying it) the application of sturdier and more evenminded talents like that of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the president of the Royal Academy. "Painting & Punctuality mix like Oil & Vinegar," he reflected...
Charles J. Christenson, a specialist in management control, was named Little Professor of Business Administration. Friends and associates of Royal Little, founder of Textron, Inc., endowed the chair in 1966 as a birthday gift to the entrepreneur...
...Winthrop players took their defeat gracefully. "We played well," said Wayne A. McDuffy, perhaps using the royal pronoun: the sophomore carried the ball on virtually every Win.-Lev. play of the game. "But," he added, "as MacArthur said; 'There's no substitute for victory...
...winning run came in the bottom of the tenth as Royal first baseman Willie Mays Aikens hit a single worthy of his namesake with two on and two out to drive left fielder Willie Wilson home from second...
...Trudeau emerged as a voice of reason--troubled yet firm. He could call for a national referendum on whether to bring the constitution home, with a good shot at success. But he feels his recently-won majority mandate is enough for him to schedule a trip to Britain on Royal Canadian Air Force One (which presumably will soon be called Canadian Air Force One). In the purest of senses, he is right--it is time for Canada to have a constitution...