Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jubilation seemed to be intended more for Makarios, the politician and primate, than for the London agreement (,'TIME. March 2) that will within the year turn the island from a British crown colony into an independent republic. In their whitewashed coffee shops Greek Cypriots frowned at Article 22 of the agreement, which forbids them ever again to demand enosis (union with Greece). "We shall have to hear about it from the mouth of Makarios," said one coffee drinker. "From him we shall learn if it is good...
...formidable anger of Pat Boone fans by describing Pat as "nice, clean-cut, antiseptic, spiritless, pallid, pretentious and even a bit of a phony." Last week, in his syndicated column, he took a long look at Benny Goodman and decided that the King of Swing has lost his crown: "Gone is the fine, warm, throbbing tone. Gone is the great driving swing . . . What we have now is a faint echo, and that...
...loss gave the Crimson a 4-10 League record, and a 10-25 overall mark. Dartmouth and Princeton tied for the crown, as the Indians trounced Brown, 74 to 63, and the Tigers edged Penn, 61 to 60. They will play off for the NCAA berth Saturday night in New Haven...
...century later, the Anglo-Egyptian agreement to let Suez bygones be bygones was being held up largely because of the claims of one Iraqi-born Jewish British subject to property in Egypt. This time, far from boasting of its readiness to defend each and every subject of the crown, Britain's Treasury spokesman insisted: "We have never, never said the name of Smouha...
...Charles de Gaulle's personal O.K. for the journey, Mohammed V unexpectedly set out on a "pilgrimage'' to retrace the route of his exile. With him aboard the royal DC-7 (equipped with salon, bedroom, movie screen, office), the King took his 29-year-old son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, and Morocco's Minister of Interior. "We have decided that the heir apparent shall accompany us during the course of this exceptional voyage, in view of its symbolic character." the King explained. "Our son Hassan has shared our exile. He was our companion, our mainstay...