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 so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

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 holds the title of International Master ( IM ), and has one of three tournament results ( norms ) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster ( GM ) title.

She shared the tournament victory with GM Boris Gulko as each scored 8 – 1.

She finished the four-player double round-robin tournament scoring 4 points, with Jan Timman at 3½ with Ulf Andersson and Tiger Hillarp-Persson finishing in that order.

She made it to the final four from the 16 grandmasters in the tournament.

She appeared headed for a first place victory in the tournament, but lost her game against compatriot Péter Lékó.

She did not play at the 2006 Linares tournament because she was pregnant again.

She scored 4½ out of 6 in a double round-robin tournament that included two wins against the world's top-rated player, Veselin Topalov.

She handed Gelfand his only loss of the tournament.

She then crushed Veselin Topalov, a former world champion and ranked No. 1 in the world in 2009, 3½ – ½ to win the tournament.

She has represented Canada at the Winter Olympics four times, capturing three gold and one silver medal and twice being named tournament MVP, and one time at the Summer Olympics in softball.

She returned to the tour at the Stanford tournament.

She was on the 1991 OSU team that made it to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament, the only OSU team to make it that far in their history, and averaged 10. 9 points a game that season.

She thinks him a fool, but treats him well at first because she wishes to hear herself proclaimed the “ Queen of Beauty ” at the tournament.

She began practising on a court at the age of four and played in her first tournament at five.

She did not win a tournament but consistently reached tournament finals and semifinals, with the highlight being her semifinal loss to Navratilova at the US Open.

She returned to win a small tournament at Mahwah just before the US Open where, in one of the most anticipated matches of the year, she encountered Navratilova in a semifinal.

She started the year strongly, with six tournament victories heading into the French Open, the highlight being at the tournament in Miami, where she defeated Martina Navratilova in a semifinal and Chris Evert in the final and conceded only 20 games in the seven rounds of the tournament.

She then won tournaments in Hamburg and Mahwah ( where she lost only eight games all tournament ).

She struggled at the tournament in Berlin where she lost a 6 – 0 set to the unheralded Sabine Hack before defeating Mary Joe Fernandez and Gabriela Sabatini in three-set matches to claim her seventh title there in eight years.

She then won her eighth German Open, but there were signs that her form was worsening as she almost lost to Julie Halard in a quarterfinal. Back-to-back losses followed ; Graf lost to Mary Pierce in a French Open semifinal, 6 – 2, 6 – 2, and followed that with a first-round straight-sets loss at Wimbledon to Lori McNeil, her first loss in a first round Grand Slam tournament in ten years.

She made her debut in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the French Open, reaching the second round before losing to Nathalie Tauziat.