Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence, he insists-"I hate anniversaries"). In that half century he has grown from a prodigy to a musical playboy to a great artist with the broadest popular following of any front-rank musician in the world. The compact dignity of his entrances, his ramrod back and frizzled grey crown, his highhanded hammering of the keyboard are known and loved wherever there are pianos...
...second American to be champion, the New York girl is the second youngest woman to take the crown...
Dartmouth captured the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association crown yesterday by defeating host Middlebury, champions for the past five years, by less than a point...
Beneath Contempt. Faced with such incendiary propaganda, the British Government announced in the House of Commons that it was considering jamming Athens broadcasts to the island crown colony. Immediately there was an outcry from Britain's Labor Opposition. Never in Lord Haw-Haw's noisiest days had the British jammed the Nazi radio; Winston Churchill preferred to treat Goebbels' propaganda as beneath contempt. But, argued the Tories last week, the circumstance is different when Greek incites fellow Greek to terrorism. And Britain, which in a desperate hour sent what troops it could spare to Greece to fight...
...Crimson, in front of the Ivy race with three victories and no defeats, could virtually eliminate the Bruins from contention for the 1956 crown with another win. Cooney Weiland's team defeated Brown in its last meeting, 4 to 2. Since then the Bruins have also lost to Yale...