Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot clinched the House soccer league crown yesterday by scoring its ninth consecutive shutout of the season with a 5 to 0 win over Leverett. With two games remaining to be played, Eliot has insured itself of a trip to New Haven for a game with the Yale intramural soccer champions...
...heir apparent to Norway's throne, Crown Prince Harold, 20, also eventually destined to be the supreme commander of the Norwegian armed forces, rose a notch in his country's army. He was promoted to sergeant...
...more vivid in British memories is Victoria's Prince Albert, founder of the present ruling house, who was the great-great-grandfather of both Elizabeth and Philip. Victoria, eager for the whole world to adore her husband as she did, was all for having the people crown Albert King right at the start. "For God's sake, Ma'am," her avuncular Prime Minister Lord Melbourne cried out at the idea, "if you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them...
Before Hoffa would accept the crown, he insisted that the Teamsters run through a charade designed to show that the Teamsters believe in fair play. Even the burliest of the delegates knew that the convention stood in the grim glare of public opinion, thanks to disclosures of Teamster corruption by John McClellan's Senate labor-rackets committee. With supreme cynicism, Jimmy and his boys pretended to clean their fingernails...
...iris under the upper or lower lid, and Shanta Rao can make either one of her eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile. Fourteen Eye Movements. Mangalore-born Dancer Rao functions from her painted soles through her tinkling, braceleted ankles, right up to the bejeweled crown of her coal-black hair. She began training for her art at the age of twelve, when she started practicing the 14 principal movements of the eyes every morning at 2:30 and finished her dance exercises every night at 11. At 16 she relaxed, did not start...