After several hours of this, learning the difference between a four-day-old horse and a cow carcass - the colour, smell, and muscle tone - the kind lady who showed us round, led us to a warm room where we could remove our hair nets and overalls and take comfort in a bowl of vegetable soup.

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And this kind American missionary lady takes one look at me and, out of sympathy, she hands me something out of the box.

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"I'm very saddened to hear the news, she was a real fighter and actually a very kind and funny lady in her own right, " he said.

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"She was a lovely supportive lady and very kind-hearted, " Mr White told BBC News website.

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It is hard to imagine the "Iron Lady" stomaching the kind of compromises her successors at Number Ten made in the pursuit of peace.

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How many can live that frugally at first, and how many can develop the kind of keen perception and concentration this young lady did to build her business?

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Prince William has announced his engagement to Kate Middleton, setting the stage for a royal wedding expected to be the biggest event of its kind since the wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer nearly 30 years ago.

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She's been covering the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson there and has been kind enough to take a quick phone break just for us.

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Mr. STORM: Lady Madonna, it comes later on, a different kind of piece, and different kids, but the same thing.

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"I decided to (be) a hip old lady" -- one who had a wicked sense of humor, the kind of person who was married 12 times and cracked a whip in a ward of cardiac patients.

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