Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands' worldwide investments helped expand its gold and dollar holdings to $1.2 billion, more than France's. Twice within 1954, Dutch wage rates have been increased, by 5% and 6%. Little Netherlands has achieved its prosperity despite losing Indonesia, the crown jewel of its empire...
...Mistake. Cambridge-educated and an ex-Grenadier Guardsman, "King Freddie," as Londoners came to know him, bore his fate with philosophical good manners. Sustained by a tax-free allowance of ?8,000 from the Crown, he set up housekeeping in a tastefully furnished flat in London's fashionable Belgravia, passed his time reading, attending the theater, discussing everything from art to EDC with old friends, and in general playing the part of a serious-minded and well-behaved West End gentleman. Britons came to admire the Kabaka's refusal to foment trouble; they were even more impressed...
...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
Three weeks ago football's little men completed their 21st organized season when Princeton edged Rutgers for the crown of the Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound Football League. While big-time All-Americans and local unsung heroes monopolized the Cambridge scene, this victory went largely unnoticed, particularly since the Crimson had given up lightweight football over 20 years...
...Brunswick, N.J.--where big-time, heavyweight competition began in 1869 and organized lightweight football held its first championship in 1934--the game rated banner headlines. For local 150-pound enthusiasts, it was a repeat of the first championship between these two elevens. That year Rutgers played to the crown before 10,000, defeating Princeton, and carrying off honors in the newly-organized 150-pound football league...