Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McKay, "the survey was going so slowly it wouldn't have been finished for a thousand years. I've fixed it so the job will be done this century anyway." He has pushed timber cutting to provide a permanent yield (as practiced by big Western operators, like Crown Zellerbach and Weyerhaeuser, whose future lies in future forest growth...
When the Chinese mainland fell to the Communists in 1949, the British crown colony of Hong Kong overnight became the biggest news center in the Far East. To British colonial officials, the influx of newsmen was a nuisance. They gave out as little information as possible about any untoward "incidents." Hong Kong, they felt, was a conspicuous testing ground for the dream of peaceful coexistence, and the fewer inflammatory news stories that got out the better...
Last week, after the full story of the attack finally got out, the foreign correspondents in Hong Kong filed a strong protest against the news blackout. The crown colony government replied with an official triple negative: "The government is not prepared to deny that relations with the press cannot be improved...
...with the greatest-partly for his immense illustrative skill but even more for the gusto with which he embraced life in his pictures. His Feast may actually represent his own family, and he may be the laughing man facing the observer. The baby of the crowd wears a paper crown and rules the festivities. The older children seem to be playing a game like that in the nursery rhyme, "Jack be nimble...
...Crown of Nothing. These hopes blasted too, Rubião decides that he has had enough of reality. He takes to sulking at home and dining a crew of worthless pickthanks who steal his cigars and tell him what he wants to hear. After some months of "conversing with his buttons," he begins to get peculiar notions. One day he buys a bust of Napoleon and another of Louis Napoleon. Pretty soon he has his beard barbered like Louis Napoleon's. "Wait," he murmurs to Sophia, "I shall still make you Empress." His cronies become marshals, his hens pheasants...