Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...body consumed with fever, his hands racked with cramps, Sanchez wrenched at the figure but found it firmly fixed to the altar. Unable to carry out his original plan, he tore off the statue's jewels, silver crown, scepter and diadem, and the crown of the infant Jesus in her arms...
...Sydney Telegraph rushed Australian Crown Prosecutor Charles Rooney 12,000 miles to London by air to cover the trial with a lawyer's eye. The London Daily Mail hired long-haired Author Peter Quennell, who was obligingly overwhelmed: "By comparison, Crippen was a sentimentalist and Landru† a boastful playboy." Even the dignified London Times gave the story three full columns...
...champion of the world, danced in his corner almost unnoticed. All eyes in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium were on the challenger, Cuba's Gerardo ("Kid Gavilan") Gonzales. Most of the 27,805 customers seemed to think that the Cuban had a real chance for the crown...
...dumped in the nearby Houston Ship Channel, that the company provide workers with an on-the-job burlesque show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety reasons. Later, the company offered to resume operations and make some concessions to the union. The workers decided to grieve a while longer before letting the management know...
Leopold's household includes the three children of Astrid-Princess Josephine-Charlotte, 21, Crown Prince Baudouin, 18, Prince Albert, 15-and Mary Liliane's son, Alexandre, 7. It is an affectionate family circle. To the stepchildren, Mary Liliane is a gay, smiling maman...