Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleon's becoming emperor was very much his own idea, but it was approved by the French Senate and by a plebiscite. Pope Pius VII journeyed to Paris for the coronation, but when it came time to put on the crown, Napoleon took it from the Pontiff's hands and put it on himself...
...Rabbi Baruch Korff of New York City just as he was about to board a private plane. Korff had planned to drop leaflets over England: "To the people whose Government proclaimed 'peace in our time,' this is a warning. Your Government has dipped His Majesty's Crown in Jewish blood and polished it with Arab oil. . . . We will carry the war to the very heart of the Empire...
...attitude: "When a guy runs up a lead on me, I'm surprised. ... I think he's either playing over his head, or lucky." This kind of confidence has to be acquired early and then be cultivated. Kramer won his first big tournament (the National Boys' crown) at 15. Frank Parker was a winner at 14, Riggs at 13, Budge...
...present, Kramer is not even nibbling, and he definitely is not talking. If he can add the Davis Cup and the 1947 U.S. singles crown to the doubles championship which he and Schroeder won at Longwood last week, he can almost name his own price...
Baudelaire explained what he meant in an essay written in 1863, when Delacroix died, and now published for the first time in English (Delacroix; Lear, Crown; $5). To the world, Bachelor Delacroix was the urbane, self-confident son of a prosperous lawyer-obviously gifted, and smooth as silk in company. To his friends, he was "like the crater of a volcano artistically hidden by bouquets of flowers." Wrote the author of Flowers of Evil...