Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the date has not been officially set, Mulroney is expected to be sworn in early next week. After moving to 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister's official residence in Ottawa, only two months ago, Turner and his family will have to start packing again. One of Turner's last duties will be to play host to Pope John Paul II as he begins an eleven-day visit to Canada this week. Turner, a Roman Catholic, planned to be on hand for the Pope's arrival in Quebec City on Sunday...
...been waiting up to two years, the Times of London observed primly that in England "queue jumping is frowned upon." There are other critics. After setting a British junior record against an undistinguished field last week, Budd was pressured to withdraw from a tune-up race last Saturday in Sussex because officials said they feared antiapartheid demonstrators. Jane Furniss, England's No. 2 middle-distance runner, says of her new competitor: "When our flag goes up and they play the national anthem, would she feel she had won for Britain or South Africa?" Like those safari ants, Budd...
...revising her new novel, she wrote a note to her sister saying: "Farewell to the world." She also wrote a note to her husband, Leonard Woolf, editor of London's Political Quarterly. Then she took a walking stick and went for her favorite walk across the rolling Sussex Downs to the River Ouse. When her husband, following the footprints across the fields, rushed up in panic, only her stick was lying on the bank. While searchers dragged the Ouse, Leonard Woolf told the press: "Mrs. Woolf is assumed to be dead...
Another of Van Dyck's clients, however, the Countess of Sussex, lamented that he had made her look "very ill-favourede," stout in the cheeks, like one of the winds huffing and blowing. "But truely," she conceded, "I thinke it tis lyke the originale." The fact is that flattery is not a word that can quickly be defined, at least in portraiture. How it is used, what it means, depends on how the sitter feels about himself and how posterity will feel about the sitter. Our own bias, in a post-Freudian age, is toward portraits that show...
...rapier prose on much that civilized man has too foolishly held dear, including, from time to time, organized religion. Late last month, however, the durable old iconoclast, who had been raised a Methodist, marched his fervent bundle of contradictions down to a tiny white chapel in Hurst Green, Sussex, and with his wife became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Once a hearty drinker and womanizer, Muggeridge somewhat stunned his readers in 1969 with the admission that he had become a practicing Christian. But in his later years, he has longed for a final truth. His decision to convert...