Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just to help. Few observers believe his intent was so benign. More probably, he wants to retake control of his old New York family-which his fellow mobsters pushed him out of twelve years ago, when he began to infringe on their turfs -and then grab Gambino's crown. Bonanno's forte is treachery-and innovation. He is credited with inventing the split-level coffin. Instead of leaving his victims for police to find, he would have them taken to a Brooklyn funeral home and put in the lower compartment of a coffin. On top would be someone...
...Japanese mother playing happily with her child looks as if she had all the time in the world. Actually, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan stole a few moments from her hectic schedule to celebrate her 42nd birthday with Princess Nori, 7, the youngest of her three children, and Nori's pet dogs (they are chin, Japanese spaniels). In honor of the occasion, the crown princess granted a rare press conference and told reporters about her official visits this year to Yugoslavia, Jordan and Britain. As for the royal birthday, the princess joked: "You know, my classmates hate this time...
...Prime Minister a lot harder if there hadn't been a total separation between the head of government and the head of state. The fact that the Queen is above politics is one of the intangible advantages. The other thing is the continuity of the Crown and, in our particular case, the Queen's sheer hard work and deep grasp of every kind of national and international problem. You have an audience every week, lasting about an hour. She sometimes floors you-did floor me very early in my premiership-by referring to a Cabinet committee paper that...
...student skit triggered the final crisis, and the coup. Selecting a youth who resembled Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, the leftists staged a mock hanging. Gruesome pictures of the charade were splashed all over Bangkok's daily papers that night. By dawn, an enraged mob of 10,000 rightists armed with rifles, swords and clubs began attacking Thammasat. They were met by M-16 gunfire and grenades. Then the troops moved...
...Jimmy Carter was trying to woo the Polish vote, he wore the wrong shirt. The eagle without a crown on his shirt is the Polish Communist version. The traditional Polish emblem is a white eagle with a crown symbolizing sovereignty and independence-virtues denied under Communism...