queening

• “Charli looks at the crowd gathered around the granite countertops: her rodeo queen coach, Kathy Spencer; Kathy's 25-year-old daughter, Tara, a 2006 Miss Rodeo Colorado and top 10 finalist from the Miss Rodeo America competition; Kathy's husband, Dave, who works in construction but, after spending nine years squiring Tara through the rodeo queen world, can be called a queening expert himself; and Chris Wagner, a horse farrier, who lives with the Spencers.”

  The Washington Post: Ten-gallon tiara: The Miss Rodeo America pageant

• “I also like the reference to "queening" and the Banksy Queen Victoria graphic ....) ”

  Progressive Bloggers

• “It concludes with an invitation for Levi to meet "the local gays" for a night of "drag queening" at a bar in Anchorage.”

  The Huffington Post: Wasilla Gays Invite Levi Johnston Out

• “Over time, I subtly worked at "de-queening" myself, at least in terms of certain mannerisms.”

  The Huffington Post: Paul Katz: Self-Aware With Self-Esteem: Week 12 of 'Mental Muscle' Boot Camp

• “After 2 Kc2, Black has 2 ... b3+ to deflect the king from the queening square d1 and it's all over: 3 Kxb3 d1 = Q or 3 Kd1 b2 with the same result.”

  The Guardian: How can Black win here?

• “Donna offers guidelines for queening, but the actual process is always personal, always individual, always feels like we're discovering something no one else has ever done.”

  The Huffington Post: Dr. Susan Corso: Queen for a Lifetime

• “But we also have to take into account the king position and – here's the problem – the white king is on the back rank and opposed by Black's king, which means that queening first doesn't help because when Black promotes it is mate.”

  The Guardian: How does White promote a pawn?

• “The only way I can see to stop this from happening is for White to promote the f-pawn, queening with check.”

  The Guardian: How does White promote a pawn?

• “He has also spotted how White might win: queening with check on the f8 square.”

  The Guardian: How does White promote a pawn?

• “I criticised Abbott on this page for her preposterous "queening it" over Esther Rantzen on an edition of This Week in the run-up to the general election.”

  The Guardian: Go on, Diane, give Miliballs a proper scare

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