Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Londoners know, the Red Dean, appointed by the Crown in 1931, cannot be removed from his post as long as he fulfills his clerical duties and does not infringe on the laws of church or state...
...rearmament. He was the first of his family to get a driver's license. He became an outspoken apostle of the Yankee square dance, of birth control (said he after the birth of his fourth child: "It is not easy to practice what you preach"), and of the Crown Prince's right to marry as he chooses ("The Crown Prince is like a bird in a cage. If he prefers a love marriage, it should be recognized"). Meanwhile, he also became a recognized authority on the ancient Orient. For such a man, it seemed perfectly natural to sign...
PAPER INDUSTRY is busy with mergers. Crown Zellerbach Corp. (1954 sales: $297 million) has offered shareholders in Gaylord Container Corp. a two-for-three stock swap. St. Regis Paper Co., biggest paper container maker (1954 sales: $200 million), will take over General Container Corp. in a stock trade (2⅜ shares of St. Regis for each share of General Container...
...permitted to own land there. Forty-three thousand whites share about 12,000 sq. mi. of the Highlands, while the colony's 5,300,000 Africans are crowded into 52,000 sq. mi. of less desirable farmlands down below, or scrabble for their living in the arid, underdeveloped "Crown Lands" -a euphemism for wilderness. For many years the million-strong Kikuyu tribe, less uneducated than most and peacefully inclined, talked hopefully of expanding their holdings into the White Highlands; instead, the white settlers told them to go expand into the Crown Lands, and vaguely talked of irrigation projects that...
...destroy the cause that you and I uphold. For this Caesar is worth six of Marius." Caesar went off to soldier in Asia, at 18, and won both honor and disgrace. For saving the life of a fellow soldier in combat, he was decorated with the cherished Civic Crown. Flawless in courage, he also showed a streak of sordid opportunism...