She was almost sick when Bobbie came home with the news that Poor John had won the job.

She was forced into patriotism in spite of herself, and the glory won by Salamis was paid for by the loss of her trade and the decay of her marine.

She also won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature for Living on Light.

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

She won an award for the Van Halen music video of the song " Right Now ", which she produced.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

She sang only two songs in the film, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )" which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and " We'll Love Again ".

She won what would become her most famous acting role, that of Kimberly Drummond on Diff ' rent Strokes.

She won the titles of Miss Arkansas in 1981 and Miss America in 1982.

She knighted Francis Drake after his circumnavigation of the globe from 1577 to 1580, and he won fame for his raids on Spanish ports and fleets.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

She has won the U. S. Championship on three other occasions, in 2007, 2010, and 2012.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

She won her first seven games before drawing the final game.

She also won the brilliancy prize for her game against Pavlina Angelova.

She won the match 5½ – 4½ and won the largest prize money to that point in her career of $ 110, 000.

She won the match 5 – 3 by winning two games with the remaining ending in draws.

She won the game with exceptional positional play.

She won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Saturn Award for Best Actress for her performance in Lars von Trier's Melancholia ( 2011 ).

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

She won five Grand Slam singles titles ( three Australian Opens, one Wimbledon, and one US Open ).

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

She must be cautious so as not to alert the scheming forest.

She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.

She got so drunk I had to take her home.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

She would sometimes even get a little hard on you, she took you so seriously.

She made General Burnside's horse's belly do so funny when it was upside down.

She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.

She had felt that her arm wanted to go up in the first trial, but had consciously prevented it from so doing.

She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.

She seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.

She spoke also with deep thankfulness of the many individuals and agencies whose interest and efforts through the years had made the work so fruitful in results.

She wouldn't be going to get that for an hour or so after Katya had left, go do the daily shopping.

She had swished away, she had been gone for a long time probably when Sarah suddenly realized that she ought to stop her, pour out the coffee, so no one would drink it.

She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.

She was generous with her encores and the audience was equally so with its cheers and applause and flowers.

She was so heavy that Maggie's arms shook from lifting her and taking care of her.

She was so beautiful, so valiant, so pitiable.

She sounded so exactly like Doaty that Henrietta obeyed her under the clear impression that she could either comply or stay home.

She pursed her lips, then clamped them together so tightly that I thought she was angry with me.