Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here is a photograph of the Selma Burke plaque of President Roosevelt. . . . Comparing it with the photograph published in TIME [Sept. 17], you can see how dreadfully the latter distorts the sculptured head, elongating it from tip of chin to tip of crown, what would amount, I think, to at least two inches. . . . I will say, however, that the plaque was extremely hard to photograph, especially with flash, as the light would bounce off the bronze into the lens of the camera. That is undoubtedly the reason the A.P. photographer took the picture from such an extreme offside angle, thereby...
...rumor mills had it that Hirohito, while closeted with MacArthur, discussed abdication in favor of Crown Prince Akihito, 11, and a regency. But there was no visible pressure on him to leave the throne. If abdication was in fact discussed, it was because Hirohito himself wanted...
...first time would have a clearing house to tie to gether all agencies' intelligence work. It could have used one before Pearl Harbor, when global gumshoeing was a fine art among other powers. (Britain's S.I.S.- -Secret Intelligence Service - and its pre cursors had helped the Crown keep tab on good & bad neighbors for nearly 400 years.) Three decades of intensive globetrotting, politicking and lawyering had prepared General Donovan for the job he did in setting up the U.S. in world espionage. One generation removed from County Cork, he was the mild-mannered, studious type, got his antonymous...
...there was a third count: that Joyce behaved as a traitor in Germany between Sept. 18, 1939 and July 2, 1940, when his British passport expired. The prosecution argued that during this period, since he enjoyed the protection of a British passport, he owed allegiance to the British Crown, and that he had betrayed that allegiance...
...Protest issue" June 13, the Spectator attacked the Emergency Council's and the King's Crown Advisory Committee's, infringement of its independence: "An intolerable situation has arisen. A willful attempt by Emergency Council is being made to grasp the reins of Spectator editorial policy so tightly that Spectator will never again be the master of its own fate.... The entire Spectator staff, Managing Board, and Associate News Board, bitterly protest this action. No one, neither the Council nor a committee of King's Crown Advisory Board has a right to approve of Spectator's editorial policy in advance...