Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heyday of empire, British representation abroad often consisted of a well-connected royal appointee ruling one of the crown's dozens of far-flung colonies in style. Throughout the tropics of Asia and Africa, governors-general sweated through noontime heat in white-plumed hats and braided uniforms, lived in white palaces called Government House and spent much of their time hobnobbing with maharajahs, sheiks and local princelings...
Class is a very hard quantity to define. Does Frank Sinatra have class? The Crown Prince of England? Does a Rolls Royce have more class than a Mark VII Jaguar? Does Jacqueline Onassis have class? How about Raquel Welch...
...situation among the three year old fillies is quite different. Four are outstanding, but two--Ta Wee and Process Sot--have proved they cannot sprint farther than a mile. A Delaware Park sometime in the late afternoon the two remaining contenders for the tree year, old filly crown will settle the score over nine furlongs. They are Mrs. Whitney Stone's Shuvee and King Ranch's Gallant Bloom...
Penn's rowing program had been successful last spring. The Quakers took varsity and freshman titles at the IRA championships and had won the freshman crown at the Eastern Sprints. It is an ambitious program, designed to break the grip Harvard has had on the national title and bring it to Philadelphia. As a reward, and primarily as a final test, Penn sent their excellent varsity heavies, a good four-with-coxswain, and their undefeated freshman heavies to Henley. The experiment failed Badly...
...suffragettes, welcomed the news that she could remain an American. The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that Dr. Anthony, who teaches theology at Marymount College in Boca Raton, Fla., should not be deported. It was true enough, she said, that in 1954 she had sworn allegiance to the British Crown rather than testify before the McCarthy hearings. But she had feared that the emotional strain would force a return to the alcoholism she had suffered in the 1940s, and she had acted in a moment of confusion and panic after Government agents had threatened to separate her from her husband...