Word: sew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Describing a tour of Europe, she lights upon the Queen of England, "the whitest woman in the world. She makes all the rest of us look like the Third World." Where, Bette asks sweetly, with only the faintest hint of bitchery, does Her Majesty get her hats? Pretending to sew, she conjures up a whole line of milliners in the basement of Buckingham Palace, threading needles for their monarch at that very moment. Then, she notes, there is that noble equestrienne, Princess Anne. How would Anne answer if someone asked how old she was? Bette wonders. Without a word...
...strategy worked perfectly as Hackett jumped out to a body length lead. Mack and Gauthier increased the Crimson margin lead, each swimming their best 200s of the year, and Mike Coglin held off a furious finish by 200 champ Andy Saltzman to sew up the victory...
...time defending champion Princeton won last year's affair by the slimmest of margins, sprinting to a three-tenth of a second victory in the final event, the 400-freestyle relay, to sew up a 364-356 win over Harvard. Columbia, the third place finisher, was far behind...
With 34 seconds remaining on the clock and the visitors behind by five at 83-78, coach Frank McLaughin was forced to bring back his starting line-up to sew up the victory over his alma mater...
With less than three minutes remaining and the Crimson down by six, Dartmouth took possession inside their own twenty and needed only one first down to sew up the game. The freshmen held however. Cuccia and company did the rest...