Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Education Oscar Ivanissevich, onetime ambassador to the U.S. and a skilled surgeon, had just the man. He called on Professor Stanley D. Tylman of the University of Illinois, who had just arrived to lecture on crown and bridge processes at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Tylman was willing. Oliva Paz went along as interpreter. The examination went something like this...
...amateur? In second place, the U.S.L.T.A. put 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who has made himself unpopular with the officials by boycotting the national singles for the past six years. Yet he was the star of the victorious Davis Cup team. And soon after Pancho put on his new crown, Old-timer Schroeder beat him twice...
Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, 14, was operated on for "a slight case of appendicitis." Not the slightest complication developed, and he was reported doing well...
...President Truman (reported by Pearson to have made an anti-Semitic remark) : "I had thought I wouldn't have to add another liar's star to that fellow's crown, but I will have...
...Missiles were thrown through windows at Newnham College [for women] ... at buses and at street lamps. In Senate-House yard, a heavy explosive charge was detonated, and some 70 panes of old crown glass were smashed...