Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published remarks on becoming King he asked his fellow Arabs, "Why don't we sacrifice 10 million of our number" to uproot Israel, which "to the Arab world is like a cancer to the human body." He has vowed Israel's destruction with a venom encouraged by Crown Prince Feisal, who took it as a personal insult when, as Saudi Arabia's U.N. delegate in 1947, he was outvoted in the Assembly. When Britain joined the Baghdad Pact, Saud promptly joined Nasser's bloc in opposition to the Western "imperialists," gave Syria a $10 million loan...
...result, after a series of visits by smoothly operating Detective Herbert ("The Count") Hannam, was the arrest of kindly Dr. Adams. Last week, in a preliminary court hearing to determine whether the doctor should stand trial for murder, a prosecutor for the Crown declared in so many blunt words that Mrs. Morrell had not died of cerebral thrombosis, but "because she was poisoned by drugs which Dr. Adams administered...
...making his case against the owlish physician, who sat quietly in dock making notes for his own lawyer on a pad, Prosecutor Melford Stevenson got permission from the presiding magistrate "to deal with the deaths of two other patients of Dr. Adams who died in circumstances which the Crown says exhibit similarity to the death of Mrs. Morrell." These two were wealthy Alfred John Hul-lett, 71, and his wife, Gertrude, 50, who died within four months of each other...
...each of their deaths, said the prosecutor, Adams stood to profit financially, though he had specifically said otherwise in requesting permission to cremate Mr. Hullett. Shortly before Mrs. Hullett's death, the Crown contended, Adams had banked a check she had made out to him for ?1,000 and asked to have it cleared in a hurry. Why had he done this? "We say," said the prosecution, "that it was because Dr. Adams knew quite well that Mrs. Hullett was going to die that weekend." Furthermore, the doctor had requested a post-mortem on his patient even before...
...Eden announced that he was also resigning his seat in Parliament. Since outright resignation is considered a show of disloyalty to the Crown, he will follow the ancient practice of disqualifying himself by applying for a job of "honor and profit" under the Crown. This post has since 1742 been "Bailiff or Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds" - a job originally established to protect the Chiltern Hills from bandits, and which once carried the nominal salary of ?i a year. The salary, like the bailiff's duties, has long since receded into traditional fiction. Eden also turned down...