Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when his wife died unattended at home. Alfonso Noriega joked, laughed and wove a crown of flowers as he walked; he wanted to thank the Virgin because his store had made so much money this year. Arnulío Garcia stepped along with a pocketful of Querétaro's famed opals and his own private prayer on his lips: "Dear Virgin, May I have better...
...past 50 years, five potential heirs have dropped out of the succession for the crown of Sweden (usually by marrying commoners). The Kingdom of the Goths and the Wends has scarcely felt their defection. For 41 years the same comfortable King* has sat on Sweden's throne, the same scholarly Crown Prince stood patiently by. Last week, as half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach...
...ceremony. "My legs are just a bit weak," he admitted after a lurching false step in the throne room, "but otherwise I feel fine." Late that night, when he strode out on to the palace balcony to greet his people for the fourth time, his daughter-in-law the Crown Princess Louise gaped in wonder. "How can he take it?" she asked. "He's fantastic...
...scallops the rake dredged up a curious object: a gigantic tooth that would have taken a Paul Bunyan dentist with forceps the size of crossed crowbars to extract. The tooth was 6.5 inches long and Weighed 3.7 pounds. The roots were rust-colored and scaly, but the hard crown was jet black, as if the owner had chewed betel nuts...
...Michigan's Chuck Fonville, 21, the world's best shotputter, tossed the 16-lb. ball 54 feet, 7 inches to win the N.C.A.A. crown for a second year. His closest competitor: Discus-Thrower Gordien, who shot-puts as a sideline...