Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce from Princess Soraya, a water-ski student on her recent Bermuda trip, with a TIME correspondent: "It's the sort of tragedy that always waits around the corner for a man who puts his public life first. We were so close. I tried to appoint a crown prince, but everybody wanted somebody in the direct line. We had several meetings with our elder statesmen. They appealed to my sense of duty and patriotism. This is always my weak point. Who knows? Maybe deep inside of me I also wanted a son and heir. Maybe some egoistic motive influenced...
Coming around the far turn, Calumet's great colt Tim Tam was making his move. The Belmont Stakes, brightest jewel in the Triple Crown of the turf, seemed safely in the bag. Bets on the odds-on favorite seemed safely in the bank...
...under his own courage, and his jockey dismounted far down the track rather than make him carry weight a step more than necessary. Later, after an ambulance had helped him to his barn, X rays showed that Tim Tam had chipped a bone in his right foreleg. The Triple Crown was gone; his brief, bright career was probably over...
...shunned his military schoolmates, read Plutarch in the library instead of playing games. Classmate Louis de Bourrienne also had the luck to be standing with 23-year-old Napoleon, then an out-at-the-elbow discharged officer, as he watched the howling mob sweep through the Tuileries to crown Louis XVI with the red cap of Liberty. He recorded young Buonaparte's Italian exclamation: "Che coglione! How could they let that rabble in? They should have swept away four or five hundred with cannon, and the others would still be running...
Getting the Goods. Just before going to Notre Dame to crown himself Emperor, he could not resist dragging his older brother to a looking glass, gloating, "Joseph, if our father could see us!" In the field he dressed plainly, had to be told by his sister to wear, suspenders because "your breeches always seem to be on the point of falling down." Léger, his tailor, reported indignantly turning down the Emperor's request to patch a pair of hunting breeches. And though Napoleon ennobled all his brothers, behind the scenes he ranted like any Corsican bourgeois, broke...