Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England's more spacious days, Sir William Cavendish won his family's fortunes as one of Henry VIII's crown commissioners, requisitioning monastic estates for the crown and the nobles; his great-great-grandson, the first Duke of Devonshire, won political power for the family by leading the Revolution of 1688 against the last of the Stuarts. On the ancestral Derbyshire lands the duke reared a vast palace that stands today in its 50,000-acre wooded park as a proud symbol of the centuries of the Whig ascendancy. Successive dukes festooned Chatsworth's 273 rooms...
...title. At Wimbledon, where the heady traditions of genteel sport stretch back beyond any at Forest Hills, her new-found confidence carried her all the way to the quarter-finals before she faltered. This year even Wimbledon succumbed, and Althea came home a queen, owner of tennis' brightest crown...
Richard has been called to renounce his crown in the sight of the Commons, to cloak Bolingbroke's usurpation in an air of constitutionality. The formal phrases of abdication are written in rhyming couplets, which Gervasi delivers with heavy emphasis on accents and rhymes, his sing-song manner perfectly bringing out the empty formality and compulsion by which Richard is relinquishing his throne...
...crown abandoned, Richard then discourses on his woes in flowing poetry. Gervasi changes completely and obviously, heightening the difference in mood and building the scene to the climax of his actual departure...
History was coming full circle in the poverty-ridden crown colony of British Guiana last week. Four years ago, in the country's first general election, Communism-spouting Cheddi B. Jagan, a suave, U.S.-educated East Indian dentist (Northwestern University, '43), startled the complacent British by sweeping into office. The followers of his People's Progressive Party shouted, "We guv'ment!", and Jagan boasted that they would shoot their "oppressors." Six months later, 700 British troops and three warships deposed Chief Minister Jagan, suspended the colony's constitution. Next week, under a cautiously revised constitution...