Word: crown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the British Crown Colony suddenly lost its spectator status. From the colony's teeming Kowloon district, thousands of pro-Maoist Chinese poured into the streets to harass Hong Kong's British rulers with the same harsh tactics that Mao's Red Guards have used on their enemies within Red China...
...group of Holworthy residents drafted the letter after reading comments of journalists who questioned Clay's patriotism. When Clay refused the army's call to induction on religious grounds--he is a Black Muslim minister--the World Boxing Association stripped him of his title crown, and most columnists supported...
...with five of the top seven -- including top men LoPucki and Keele -- returning to be joined by members of this year's outstanding freshman septet. Harvard should have an even better shot at the Ivy crown next season...
Tomorrow is the Preakness, the second, the shortest, and the richest of the three races that make up the Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Understandably, no one is doing much talking about that either. Although the final line will not be made up until today, it is fairly certain that the first five Derby finishers will be among the Preakness starters, and the Derby raised many more questions than it answered...
...willing to put my $2 and handicapping reputation on the line and say that Proud Clarion will not win the Preakness tomorrow. Sure, he is almost certain to go off the favorite, and favorites win 33 per cent of the races. Sure, in the 19 years since the Triple Crown was last won, ten horses have swept two of the three races. Sure, Proud Clarion withstood a sizzling pace and a sloppy track in his face to run the last quarter in an incredible 24 seconds. Sure, his is the classic rags-to-riches story of which heroes...