Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungary's powerful rulers had become Christian, and in that year Pope Sylvester II gave Arpad's great-great-grandson King (later Saint) Stephen the Holy Crown which, its cross knocked askew through the ages, is still Hungary's most precious treasure. (After World War II it was taken in custody by the U.S. Government.) In 1222, only seven years after the barons of England forced King John to sign their Magna Charta, the freemen of Hungary made their own King Andrew sign a comparable document known as the Golden Bull, the first charter of human rights...
...Europe, brainy General Alfred M. Gruenther, 57, dropped in at the White House to pay his respects to Old Friend Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Al Gruenther's Distinguished Service Medal Ike pinned a third Oak Leaf Cluster, wished him well in his forthcoming presidency of the American Red Cross. That afternoon Gruenther mistily watched a "retreat parade" in his honor, then met some 600 friends who gave him a farewell handshake in observance of his 38-year military career that ends this week...
...meat of Jordan's attack has always been the power play, employing bucks and cross-bucks much of the time. He made extensive use of the advantages of the single-wing power plays to the strong side of the line. In the seven years at the College, Jordan's teams were constantly plagued with a sieve-like pass defense...
...Apparently convinced that Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson really means to tangle with Utah's Gene Fullmer, International Boxing Club publicists set about proving that, come Jan. 2, paying customers will really see a fist fight. Fullmer's right cross, they announced after subjecting the punch to split-second electronic analysis, travels at 30.4 m.p.h., packs a 1,260-lb. wallop. Robinson's right loafs along at 15.2 m.p.h., but it lands with the weight of 1,500 lbs. Robinson, for one, was unimpressed by the revelation. "Don't care how fast it goes," said...
...answering the question, "But how make you gentles [i.e., fly larvae] to keep them?" the Arte says: "Of a piece of a beast's liver, hanged in some corner over a pot or little barrel, with a cross stick and the vessel half full of red clay; and as they wax big, they will fall into that troubled clay and so scour them that they will be ready at all times." On the same subject, Walton says: "You may breed and keep gentles thus: take a piece of beast's liver, and with a cross stick hang...