Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putt fell by the wayside and someone else besides Alex Vik took away the Ivy golf crown for the first time in three years. Agawam Hunt Golf Course Card of the course No 1 422 yards par 4 No 2 175 yards par 3 No 3 502 yards par 5 No 4 470 yards par 5 No 5 168 yards par 3 No 6 463 yards par 4 No 7 293 yards par 4 No 8 155 yards par 3 No 9 347 yards par 4 No 10 388 yards par 4 No 11 152 yards...
...increasingly infrequent in the sports world. Everyone that was supposed to win did. Delta State took its third straight women's basketball championship, Johnny Petraglia won his tenth pro bowling title. Seattle Slew won his fifth consecutive stakes race and the University of Southern California won the NCAA swimming crown...
...completely dominated the championships, winning eight of the 16 titles on its way to capturing its fourth straight NCAA crown...
...only to do violence to one another. Their weapons are their wounds: old snubs and older betrayals. The law they fight under is the law of the jungle, where only the strong and the cunning survive from one holiday to the next, and the prize they contest is the crown, emblem of land and power...
Even as a child, "Lillibet," as royal baby talk dubbed her, proves a hard act for Lacey to humanize. It is as if she were born with her crown on. Her grandfather George V had written to her father George VI: "Now that you are five years old I hope you will always try and be obedient and do at once what you are told, as you will find it will come much easier to you the sooner you begin." The advice helped give her father a lifelong case of the stammers. Elizabeth appears to have thrived on it, suffering...