Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same forum, the Crown Prosecutor of Ceylon, Neville Kanakaratne, defended his country's so-called "neutralist" foreign policy by asserting that military alliances tend to aggravate tensions while participants lost independence of judgment. He defined Ceylon's foreign attitude as one of "noninvolvement in the military policy of foreign blocs...
...late weekday afternoon, a strange un-Neapolitan procession suddenly throbs to life. Hundreds of American cars, driven by buoyant, carefree American Navymen or their wives, begin their winding way through the ancient streets, far out to rented country villas or to the shiny new apartment buildings that crown the surrounding hills. Soon the flowered apartment terraces ring with the pleasant tinkle of ice cubes and buzz to the languid chitchat of the cocktail hour...
Britain's most loyal ally in the Middle East, Iraq's young (21) King Feisal II, jubilantly showed up at Buckingham Palace for a state visit to a power behind his throne. Flanked by his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...mystical ties that bind the Commonwealth (née 1926 the British Commonwealth) get more mystical each year. Its 650 millions are not united by allegiance to the Crown (India and Pakistan refuse it), or by common culture, or by language, religion or policy. The nine Commonwealth Prime Ministers gathered in London last week ranged from South Africa's racist Johannes Strydom, a Boer who dislikes the British influence almost as much as he dislikes Indians, to India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who is heard in such surroundings with some deference but little affection. They did not talk...
EXPLORING AMERICAN CAVES (280 pp.)−Franklin Folsom−Crown...