Word: xviii
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indirection, how completely, and, as it were, unconsciously metaphorical!" Next, the wounded vessel encounters the Alcyone, another British ship, bound for India and bearing news. The endless war with France is over. Napoleon Bonaparte has been driven into exile on the island of Elba; long live King Louis XVIII! Celebrations follow. Talbot is invited to dine with Sir Henry Somerset, captain of the Alcyone, and meets Lady Somerset's protegee, Miss Marion Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley). The diarist not only falls in love but also must struggle hopelessly to find some fresh way of describing his feelings: "Forgive a young...
Tickets for Super Bowl XVIII (in Tampa Bay Stadium) sold at a minimum cost of $60 and are expected to cost about the same next year...
...billed as the clash of the titans--superpowers Harvard and Princeton in swimming--a meet that could be decided by the final relay. Instead, it turned out to be a Super Bowl XVIII-style whitewash as the Harvard men's swimming team prevailed, 77-36, Saturday at Blodgett Pool...
...lead actor of the everlastingness of France." Indeed, allows a close confidant, Mitterrand is already thinking in terms of a Socialist presidency lasting for 14 years-long enough "to penetrate French society with the kind of modifications that will be irreversible no matter what comes after-just as Louis XVIII did not try to reverse what Napoleon had done...
...largest U.S. parachute drop in peacetime wafted down onto the sandy scrubland of Florida's panhandle early one morning this month: 2,640 soldiers leaping from 20 huge C-141 jets, along with three more planeloads of Jeeps and other heavy equipment. They came from the XVIII Airborne Corps and the First Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, N.C. If war or the threat of war were to come in the Persian Gulf area, these paratroopers likely would be the U.S. spearhead...