Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the three weeks of Adams' trial, as the eyes of the whole newspaper-reading world focused in fascination on the pudgy, amiable defendant, expert after expert took the stand at the behest of the crown's prosecutor, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller. No one denied that on Dr. Adams' orders large doses of heroin, morphine and paraldehyde had been administered to the ailing, 81-year-old widow during the long illness that preceded her death. Only the experts could say whether this medication had hastened her end or merely, as the defense contended, eased...
...middle of his third day in the box, Dr. Douthwaite was more than ready to concede that there was "a possible alternative view" to his original contention. Under Lawrence's acid crossexamination, the crown's second expert, Dr. Michael George Corbett Ashby, was likewise forced to admit that the possibility of death by natural causes "cannot be ruled...
...Jacob had some decided ideas on the subject. "Usually," he said, "Christ in majesty is shown with a crown and scepter. I rejected that. I rejected the conventional symbols, the stigmata, the crown of thorns. I told them I would not use them. I wanted to make him divine, but human." The cathedral authorities agreed...
...April 16--Jordan's new government, which is expected to turn this Middle Eastern kingdom aside from its drift toward the Arab pro-Soviet camp, appeared to be in solid control today. Tough Bedouin troops and security police, who supported 21-year-old King Hussein when he placed his crown on the line at the height of Jordan's six-day political crisis, maintained strict order...
...triumphant laurels crown...