Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead? Lawrence Olivier. But the Oliviers are more in demand than any other players in the world. So harassed are they with mountains of marvelous offers that they must feel as though they had to decide whether to tear up the Magna Charta before breakfast or put the Crown Jewels down the lavatory and pull the chain. So it is that a director almost never can get a whole cast of first choices. And he faces the dilemma of whether to get big names that he knows can't play the part or to gamble on unknowns who just possibly...
...twelve pants-pressers, twelve shoeshine boys, two full-time tailors, and bevies of shy, eye-batting Japanese girls. Yet Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior, Lieut. William Shortt, to get his hair "clipped close from ear to crown, with only a fringe on top of the head"-a haircut variously known as a white sidewall, an Apache, a chrome-dome...
...that stretches from Shantung province on the Yellow Sea to the southern coast of Kwangtung province on the Gulf of Tonkin, the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies-flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong at an officially counted rate of 100 a day; how many others came across the Communist border uncounted, no one knew. In the nearby Portuguese colony of Macao, officials estimated that 20,000 Chinese refugees had fled their homeland in the past two months. Communist border...
...socialize, swap drinks from common bottles, and sometimes blow smoldering feuds into bloody violence. Out of such a quarrel came the young lawyer's first case. The client: a farmer charged with shotgunning a neighbor to death. The trial came on John Diefenbaker's 24th birthday. The crown prosecutor made a solid case, and the judge issued a strong charge, all but directing the jury to convict. Instead, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Later, Diefenbaker met the foreman and asked how the jury reached its decision. "We talked it over," said the foreman, "and somebody...
...death by burning. It is still not known who did the job, so heavily covered were the headsman and his assistant. To William Juxon, the Church of England's Bishop of London (and future Archbishop of Canterbury), Charles said: "I am going from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown, where no disturbance can be." And to his executioner: "I shall say but a short prayer and, when I hold out my hands thus, strike." The ax flashed and Cromwell's will was done-but so anxious was he to make sure, that he later went to the coffin...