Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain curve along the Appian Way, a modern traveler in the Basilicata region of Southern Italy easily imagines himself in the Middle Ages. On the hill opposite, like a romantic vision, sits an amphitheater of golden-tinted houses with red-tiled roofs rising row upon row to the double crown of a ducal palace and a Norman tower...
Roger Guthrie of Eliot edged Winthrop's Rocky Grossman for the fly-weight championship. Gary Aronhalt of Dudley captured the 145-pound crown...
...monumental inconveniences caused by what is now euphemistically called "the disturbances," 1967 turned out to be Hong Kong's best export year until then, and 1968 was even better in every respect. Last week, as it celebrated the Chinese New Year-the "Year of the Rooster"-the British crown colony had plenty to crow about. Business has never been better...
...China could overrun Hong Kong in 24 hours whenever it wished. What permits business optimism is the belief that Peking finds the status quo alluring. Red China earns nearly half of its foreign exchange-upwards of $500 million a year in hard currency-by trading with and through the crown colony. Some $100 million of that amount comes in remittances from overseas Chinese that flow through the colony's banks; Peking owns or controls ten banks and innumerable other businesses in Hong Kong...
...needs only one victory in its last two games--Harvard and Princeton--to clinch first place, and a win over Harvard for undisputed possession of its fourth straight crown...