Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later he said: "The Geneva Conference, now shining as a star in the administration's crown, was only made possible by the shift in control of the Senate to the Democratic party. Dulles remained reluctant; the President was still bashful. It was Senator Walter George, Democratic chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who gave them impetus-and it was a rather sharp kick in the right place." Leader's punch line brought howls of delight from his audience. "As Governor of Pennsylvania," he said, "a very real pleasure will come to me. I will have...
...gold-rush town of Ouro Preto. There, under the harsh rule of whiplashing, saber-swinging Portuguese dragoons, both blacks and whites labored to sluice and pan over $8,000,000 in gold and diamonds from the fabulous mines of Minas Gerais. Most of the gold went to the Portuguese Crown, but the little that the miners gleaned for themselves made them rich. To prove their piety, the miners embarked on a church-building spree that created some of the most handsomely rococo churches in South America. On these young António Francisco worked, first as carpenter, later as architect...
...Camas, Wash. last week, Crown Zellerbach Corp.'s Executive Vice President Harold L. Zellerbach picked up a gold-painted shovel and patted rain-soaked earth around the base of a newly-planted western hemlock. With this symbolic gesture, he dedicated the company's new three-story $600,000 central research laboratory building. Said Zellerbach: "Three decades ago, the western hemlock was considered little more than a forest weed...
...Freud's brilliant but obstinate, vain and hypersensitive character seems to have shaped the psychoanalytic movement. There were squabbles, rivalries, accusations. In 1910 began a series of famed apostasies of disciples who refused to accept Freud's theories unconditionally. First Adler deserted, then Stekel, and finally "Crown Prince" Carl Gustav Jung himself. Biographer Jones suggests that the dissidents were those who still felt "obliged to perpetuate the rebelliousness of childhood...
...pockmarked, childish lad who prattled only of soldiers and toys, and in the next 18 years expanded his interests to include mistresses, hounds and drinking. Catherine, as Sophia was rechristened when she entered the Russian Orthodox Church, soon sized him up: "I believe that the Crown of Russia attracted me more than his person...