Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performances seen at Harvard in recent years, the Crimson squash team defeated Yale's National Champions, 6 to 3, Saturday afternon in Hemenway Gymnasium. Led by a decisive opening victory by captain Charlie Hamm, the Crimson controlled the match from the very beginning, as the varsity regained the Ivy crown...
...abandoned its Suez base and retreated to Cyprus, a Tory minister assured everyone that Cyprus would "never" be released to independence. The Conservatives had also argued in the past that Greece and Turkey should have no say in the solution of a problem that, after all, concerned a British crown colony. Yet here were the British accepting the terms of a settlement handed down by the Greeks and Turks, ending British rule in a British colony. The Makarios whom the British had regarded as an ecclesiastical bushwhacker was now being welcomed in London. But then, this was no new experience...
Should Navy lose to Army this afternoon at Annapolis, the Eastern crown would go to the winner of the H-Y match, although such an occurrence can be deemed unlikely at best...
...winning his first National Amateur crown, Heckscher had to overcome a long series of obstacles, foremost among whom was the brilliant defending champion, Henri Salaun of Boston. Salaun is one of the very finest players in the world, probably second only to the Khan's of Pakistan at present, and has always stopped Heckscher's ambitions in the past. But Sunday, playing with a recently improved backhand, Heckscher finally pulled out a victory. Salaun played deliberately to Heckscher's backhand side in their semi-final contest, and this strategy proved his undoing...
Drifting unobtrusively across the country as the guest of the Defense Department, Greece's Ivy Leaguish Crown Prince Constantine, at 18 a second lieutenant in his country's army, navy and air force, paused on a tour of Hollywood's wonders for a chat with veteran Cinemenace Peter Lorre, somewhat whey-faced in his makeup for the role of a clown in MGM's The Big Circus...