Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heightened awareness of eye-catching packaging, and a wide range of new products, e.g., wet-proof, rodentproof, flameproof paper bags are now widely used instead of drums, fiberboard cartons in place of wooden crates. So great is the demand for paper and fiberboard containers that many big manufacturers, e.g., Crown Zellerbach, have had to ration some products...
...Limb. In Chicago, after making personal appearances among 1,150 exhibits stretched over five miles of the Navy Pier, Ruth Elaine Conte abdicated as queen of the National Restaurant Association's convention, handed her crown over to N.R.A. President Marion Isbell, bawled, "That's enough; my feet hurt...
...year-long fight between Greek-speaking Cypriots and their British masters in the crown colony of Cyprus, 92 people had lost their lives up to week's end-not a very big figure when set against such other tragic struggles as Kenya and Algeria. But what made it heartbreaking is the fact that it is a fight between friends. Greeks have fought beside Britons for freedom since Byron; they cannot understand now why the British should deny their fellow Greeks' desire for self-determination...
Several minutes before Junta's match ended, a roar went up from court four. At third doubles, Gravem and Connie Fischer had defeated John McKean and Arnold, 6-4, 6-3, to assure the Crimson of the EIL crown...
...bottom two doubles teams split their matches, leaving the varsity with a 7-6 edge. However, Junta and Harris were having trouble with Farrin and Sofield, and it appeared that Harvard might let the Big Three crown slip out of its grasp...