Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery of photographers. Then he slipped gratefully into Mamie's black Chrysler Crown Imperial, and sagged back against a white pillow. In a moment his Secret Service driver wheeled the car out into Washington traffic, led the cavalcade of Secret Service men, photographers and reporters north through the Maryland countryside...
...official member of the State Council. In most kingdoms monarchs reign until their deaths, but in The Netherlands retirement in favor of the royal heir has become expected. Ex-Queen Wilhelmina, still alive and 68, gave way to her daughter Juliana in 1948. If some such shift of the crown from Juliana to Beatrix is now under consideration, no Dutch newspaper was so tactless as to hint...
...nation whose succulent peaches and sour lemons are often wrapped alike in the veils and Mother Hubbards of Islamic modesty is no easy matter. But the founders of Pakistan's Beauty Pageant Association, whose mission was to find a Miss Pakistan shapely enough to carry away the crown of Miss Universe at Long Beach, Calif., are a hardy lot. A group of 15 Westward-looking businessmen and emancipated society women (twelve of them Moslems), they devised what seemed at first to be a prejudice-proof set of rules for the conduct of a proper Islamic beauty contest. Only...
...crown of his cap Were the Furies and Fates And an excellent map Of the Dorian States; And in both of his palms They discovered What is common in palms-That is, dates...
Youngest ever to win the British amateur crown, Beharrell insisted, "I will never go pro-never, never, never." He will probably never have to. His grandfather, Sir J. George Beharrell, is president of Dunlop Rubber...