Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Griffith, who also holds the welter-weight crown, was ten pounds lighter and nine years younger, and Tiger simply could not stay with the faster man. Although Tiger jolted Griffith more than once, he failed to follow up his punches...
...Wellesley, 50 girls cheered Peterson to the finish, and the president of the Wellesley Outing Club awarded him a kiss and a laurel crown. Later, the Bicycle Exchange presented Peterson a 3225 racing bike...
Dirty Dick's. No other city offers a wider variety of ways in which to pass the time, and Londoners pursue their pleasures as relentlessly as people anywhere in the world. London has hundreds of pleasant pubs with such charming names as the Bricklayers' Arms, Coal Hole, Crown and Two Chairmen, Dandy Roll and Dirty Dick's, but the two current favorites among the In set are the Cross-Keys and the King's Head and Eight Bells. Dozens of nightclubs offer totally uninhibited striptease, including Raymond's Revue Bar, sizzling in Soho, where...
...uses a cantilevered roof to do away with corner posts, boasts 240° visibility, and makes a stab at bringing back the old rumble seat with a back bench that uses the swing-up rear window as a windscreen. With busy businessmen in mind, Chrysler turned its 1966 Imperial Crown coupe into an experimental Mobile Executive car by installing a front passenger seat that swivels around for conferences, a folding table and typewriter for paperwork, a dictating machine, TV and two telephones...
BRET HARTE, by Richard O'Connor. Historian O'Connor does well with figures who never quite hit it big, and Bret Harte never did: despite all he wrote, his literary crown rests on two stories and a bit of very bad verse...