Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crown of one set apart from...
...blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren...
...jack up Curtis magazines have met with little success. On four of them-the Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday, American Home and Jack & Jill-a revolving-door policy for editors has had little more effect than to unsettle the incumbents. The Journal, for example, which in 1961 lost its crown to McCall's as the leading woman's magazine, has yet to recover...
...week's end the storm had subsided around the crown, whose motto ironically proclaims: "My power is in the love of the people." But in the Byzantine tangle of Greek politics, the struggle was sure to go on and sooner or later erupt anew. For the Greeks can live neither with, nor without, their Kings...
...young and respectable word, Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes dispatched small bands of his agents into the wilds of Africa to make treaties with entire tribes. In 1890 the agents struck a shrewd bargain. In return for ?2,000 sterling a year and the "protection" of the British crown, King Lewanika of Barotseland granted Rhodes a monopoly of the natural resources of his kingdom. As it turned out, the king's domain covered quite a bit of territory, and under charter from Queen Victoria, Rhodes directed his newly formed British South Africa Co. to exploit, explore and settle thousands...