Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though a rebel in some respects, Roosevelt did not turn his back on things social. He was impressed enough to write home once: "THE CROWN PRINCE OF SIAM was at the game, and came to the FLY after it for some 'afternoon tea,' i.e. a little champagne!" And while heading the CRIMSON, he refused to stop running the list of men who made the various clubs. (The next year's editors stopped "that concession to snobbery.") Democratic though he was, he remained a gentleman in the Roosevelt tradition...
...retake one, a heavy cruiser lobbed shells into others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part of the old protectorate south of Ifni still administered by the Spanish as "Southern Morocco...
...Outsiders. Though both Moroccan and Tunisian delegates summoned them separately to conferences, the Algerians were invited to none of the official banquets or meetings. They waited outside the palace in a car for the final communiqué. When it was ready, Morocco's Crown Prince Moulay Hassan himself went out to hand it to them before it was distributed to the press. The communiqué announced that Bourguiba and the King, scheduled to fly to the U.S. this week to visit President Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), had agreed to put their good offices at the "disposal of France...
RABAT, Morocco, Nov. 28--Crown Prince Moulay Hassan today charged Spanish forces with attacking Moroccan territory from the hills of the rebellious colony of Ifni, and ordered the royal army to shoot back...
...saga of Williams' sixteenth season is already legend. At 39, he was the oldest man ever to win the batting crown, hitting a fantastic .388, compared to Mantle's .365. Williams also poled thirty-eight homers, four more than Mantle. In the most significant single numerical gauge of a hitter's worth, the slugging percentage, Mantle accumulated a mark of .665. This was much less than Williams' .731, the highest record recorded in either league since Williams' 1941 season...