Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
...pledged his support. But there was no jubilation; no one headed for the bar to celebrate. They had rejected Bevan because he was too unreliable and would "frighten the country off us." Sadly they had rejected Morrison because he had become too old during the long years as Crown Prince. Gaitskell had been chosen in cold rationalism, not hot enthusiasm...
...that he pays out more than $50 million a year to keep desert tribes loyal. Ibn Saud had a father's control over his 40-odd sons. Saud has only the stature of eldest brother, and the power of his purse. There is inevitable rivalry with his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, though the old King, when death was near, made the two swear on the Koran never to oppose each other...
...CURRIER & IVES TREASURY, edited by Colin Simkin (Crown; $10), contains 80 prints in color, generous in size (10 in. by 14 in.), and calculated to hasten the pulse of anyone devoted to forthright Americana...
...despite such intermittent creakings and groanings as to make a non-Britisher think the whole contraption is about to fall apart. Essence of the Establishment: the state protects the Church of England but also supervises its affairs; the monarch is head of the Church; bishops are appointed by the Crown on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Currently the whole question of church-state relations is once again a hot debating issue in Britain...