Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curly-haired Queen; she had already made herself a big hit on her first trip to the U.S. five years ago. Sure enough, the lively Frederika danced into the capital with smiling, informal grace and two French poodles (Topsy and Toodles). With her were two of her three children: Crown Prince Constantine, Duke of Sparta, 18, and Princess Sophia, 20. Explained Frederika: King Paul stayed home to look after the country, and Princess Irene, 16, stayed home to look after the King...
...women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest and torture as part of the government's thought-control policy began to speak out. Among them were 1,500 Presbyterian churches of the United Church of Christ, and the Japanese Intellectuals' Congress, headed by Crown Prince Akihito's former tutor...
Both Harvard and Yale are undefeated this season and the Crimson holds the Big Three Championship from last year. Should the harriers win, it would be their fourteenth consecutive win in dual or triangular competition and their fifth Big Three crown in seven tries...
...months their brilliant defense counsel, Israel Maisels, Q.C., had hammered away at the Crown's inability to prove that on any particular occasion any of the defendants had preached revolution. At one point he seized a batch of documents that the Crown had introduced as evidence, waved them in the air crying: "Here, my lords, we have a Russian recipe book, an Indian school magazine, a letter saying a check has been lost, another that it has been found. There are 10,000 of these documents and it would be impossible for anybody to read them all," yet when...
...sending Princess Margaret to B.C. to grace the celebrations with her charm. All of this is part of Canada's biggest birthday party: British Columbia is 100 years old, celebrating the day in 1858 when Queen Victoria, who had scarcely heard of the place, designated the land a crown colony and sent it down the road to union with Canada...