Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should crown Ronald Reagan king. It is rather late to make America a monarchy true, but this coronation will simply recognize a falt accompli: Ronald Reagan has become our royal pet. What a magnificent image he projects! Thousand, perhaps millions revere him. Even his enemies call him the Great Communicator. As long as he is fed fine speeches by the tele-prompter and--with the right lights--looks bracingly American, no one cares if he rides horses when he should be working, or is fed lines by Nancy at press conferences. In all honesty, he would be a great ruler...
...Like the Royal Navy and India, the pound had always been a jewel in the British imperial crown. But last week the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had to rush to rescue the once proud pound from sinking below $1 in value. The pound has always been something of an anomaly in international currency markets. While it takes several deutsche marks or French francs, and hundreds of Japanese yen, to equal one U.S. dollar, the British pound is the only major Western currency worth more than a dollar. In 1949 a pound was worth $4.03, and as recently...
...Francisco--the level of their confidence, the quality of their arrogance, even the way they can make hair curl up under helmets and stand up on necks suggested a confrontation was coming one day. If all of the National Football League quarterbacks were ringed in a battle royal, wouldn't these two be the ones left standing at the end? That roughly describes the process of the past four long and occasionally languorous months, during which Marino's Dolphins lost only two games and Montana's 49ers merely...
...snarly street-corner manner. A ready laugh, for one. "Just taking it easy, having fun," he likes to say. His common speech owes something to Huntz Hall and Leo Gorcey, though he can shift from "dese" and "dose" to a surprising eloquence. He sways behind the center like a royal palm, but it is a greater wonder how he can swagger sitting down and strut standing still. A compact passing release is characteristic of his general economy of movement and thought. "Most quarterbacks have that high- arm action," Shula demonstrates, "but everything he does is down in here," motioning about...
Certainly they were a love match, as royal marriages go. Nonetheless, Rhodes James is forced to report, they did have their scenes. She could fly into rages and overwhelm Albert with accusations of "want of trust, ambition, envy, etc. etc." About ambition, the Queen may have been right. The Prince's first tutor observed of Albert, "To do something was with him a necessity." He formed an alliance with the Tories, thereby becoming the last occupant of Buckingham Palace to meddle in partisan politics. But despite reading and annotating Foreign Office papers until he dropped, the Prince had a modest...