Word: crowning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
AMERICAN GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Champion Al Geiberger defends his crown in the $100,000 event at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Final round, 4:30 p.m. Sunday...
...week by Peking's promises of more trouble to come: "Let the British imperialists tremble before the Chinese people." The British made more raids on leftist unions and arrested more than 600 people in an effort to prevent a recurrence of the Maoist rioting that has shaken the crown colony off and on for more than two months. Police, aided by British troops, found caches of arms, Molotov cocktails and bottles of acid...
...Dorado. The heavyweight crown in boxing may be up for grabs, but in the movies it is still firmly planted on the balding head of John Wayne. In El Dorado, though his lope may be a bit arthritic, the Duke still greets the opposition on a fist-come, fist-served basis, and the wrongo who tries to outdraw him still winds up feeling kind of shot...
...Jokers tells about two young men who make off with the Crown Jewels just to show they can do it. The two are brothers: one is thirty-ish suave; the other, a modly dressed stripling. The Stripling has always taken the rap for exploits they've planned together. While his brother sat tight in London acting the model man, upholder of Elizabeth's England, the Stripling got expelled from Cambridge and Sandhurst. The story shows how The stripling and Mr. Suave prove they're brilliant, the less likely one proves he's even trickier, both wind up in jail. Tucked...
Still there are some jokes. Like when the older brother unveils the machine that will drill their way to the jewels and the younger brother inquires, "Where'd yew get it? Rent-a-Lazar?" Or when the older brother moves majestically around his kitchen ,wearing a crown and frying bacon. The next minute you expected to see him whipping up pancakes with the sceptre...