Word: victoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Victoria Unger...
...SALAAM, Tanzania--Ugandan President Idi Amin claimed yesterday he has annexed a 710-square-mile strip of Tanzanian tereitory along the western shore of Lake Victoria. The announcement came amid reports of fierce fighting between troops of the two East African nations...
Many women at the school look forward to the establishment of a "new girl network" that would serve as "an executive washroom--for women," as Victoria Hamilton '75, a second-year student, describes it. Such a network would ease young women's entrance into an atmosphere wholly different from others in which they have succeeded previously...
...disastrous Sunday, Korchnoi lost twice to Karpov in the space of an hour. The anguished challenger fled to Manila, where he encountered Steven Michael Dwyer and Victoria Sheppard, members of Ananda Marga, a yoga-practicing Indian sect. The two young Americans were out on bail, appealing a conviction for stabbing an Indian embassy official. Korchnoi struck up a friendship with the saffron-robed duo, who prescribed yoga exercises, including headstands, as a remedy for his tension. Back in Baguio City, with the yoga experts in tow, Korchnoi mounted a surprising offensive, winning four of the next 14 games, to even...
Pepita, ostensibly a biography of Victoria's mother, offered a devastating portrait of Vita Sackville-West's own mother, a "pure undiluted peasant," whose tantrums made austere Knole echo like some Andalusian marketplace. Victoria, wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen...