Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four British warships sped to British Guiana a year ago to enforce London's decision to suspend the South American colony's seven-month-old constitution and thereby stifle its Red-infiltrated government. Since then, restive British Guiana has remained under a state-of-emergency rule by Crown-appointed Governor Sir Alfred Savage...
Interview in the Palace. Twenty minutes later, Mohammed Ali stood before the Governor General, 59-year-old Ghulam Mohammed, a big rugged man who derives his powers-in the absence of a Pakistan constitution-from the British crown, which appointed him. Beside the Governor General stood the strongman of the Pakistan army, Major General Iskander Mirza. "I am dissolving the Constituent Assembly tomorrow," announced Ghulam to the Prime Minister. "You will remain Prime Minister, but you will reform your Cabinet. Major General Mirza will be your Minister of the Interior. General Ayub Khan will become Defense Minister as well...
Ghulam Mohammad is officially the Pakistani representative of the British Crown (Pakistan remains within the British Commonwealth) ; since Pakistan in its seven years has yet to get itself a Constitution or hold a national election, it is hard to determine where power officially resides. In practice it remains in the hands of a small, powerful group of Moslem leaders who control the tough 250,000-man army, run the everyday life of Pakistan and are chiefly responsible for the nation's stability. Governor General Ghulam Mohammad is one of them. In April 1953 Ghulam Mohammad casually dismissed a roly...
...Lionel Heald, representing the Crown, opened the proceedings by citing Nevil Shute's novel, No Highway, in which the scientist hero predicts that an airliner will crash because of "metal fatigue."* It was this same metal fatigue, said Sir Lionel, that destroyed the Comets...
...HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 29--Harvard achieved its first undefeated season since 1989 today when five runners, led by Al Wills and Don French, sloshed through the Yale golf course mud to capture the Big Three cross-country crown from Princeton and Yale...