Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yankee Stadium last week on terminal leave from the Army, he and the Yankees looked almost as good as they did in the 1953 World Series-when Martin's last stint produced a heroic .500 batting average, a sixth-game, ninth-inning single that gave the Yankees the crown. Against the Washington Senators Martin sparked his team with two crackling hits. Whitey Ford pitched a brilliant one-hitter, Mickey Mantle slammed out his 36th homer, drove in three runs, winning the game 4-2. In the dizzy seesaw American League race with Chicago (ahead by half a game...
...seven, Sophia Augusta Frederica, the penniless daughter of a petty German princeling, found "this idea of a crown . . . running in my head then like a tune, and [it] has been running . . . ever since." The music never stopped. Little Sophia of Stettin became Catherine the Great of Russia, one of the most brilliant women ever to mount a throne. Her Memoirs, published for the first time in an unexpurgated English-language edition, take Catherine only to the threshold of the throne. Nonetheless, her chronicle tells in candid detail how uneasy sleeps the head that even waits for a crown...
...Tried out during his Philadelphia trip a specially designed seven-passenger Chrysler Crown Imperial that provides protection against the elements and still gives the public an unrestricted view. The center supports had been removed from the limousine, giving it the clean look of a hardtop convertible, the rear seats were pushed forward, and a sliding roof installed, so that Ike, standing on a platform, was plainly visible to 25,000 cheering Philadelphians who lined the streets...
...Mediterranean island of Cyprus has not belonged to Greece for 2,300 years, but four-fifths of the population of the British Crown Colony of Cyprus speak Greek or belong to the Greek Orthodox Church. Cyprus and Greece have not even been under the same rule since 1191, when they were both part of the Byzantine Empire, but the most electric word among Cypriots today is enosis (union with Greece). Just how widespread the urge for enosis is among Cypriots is a matter of dispute. The British insist that the agitation is largely the doing of one man, bearded Archbishop...
Recently, the Brandy Kingship of Noordgesig, a Colored (mixed blood) community near Johannesburg, fell open when the local champion was killed in a motor accident. After priming themselves with a couple of fingers of brandy apiece, two new contenders stepped up to compete for his crown. Each deposited ?2 on a table as a sign of good faith, then, at a signal from the local referees, they went to work. At the end of 45 minutes, Contender Eric Forster was well out in front, with a full quart of brandy inside him. He groped unsteadily to his feet, demanded recognition...