Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quest for the Ivy League crown has barely begun, but for the moment the Crimson is definitely stayin' alive...
...funny thing happened this week. In baseball's American League East, a Canadian team from Toronto, Ontario, captured the division crown...
...eight years at Harvard, McLaughlin compiled a 99-110 record and pushed the historically weak Crimson program to the upper reaches of Ivy basketball, although his teams never managed to claim the league crown...
...Susan Akin's first wish was for hot apple pie and ice cream. Since then, Akin, 21, a blond, blue-eyed public relations and communications major at the University of Mississippi, has been swept up in the whirlwind of talk shows, photo sessions and interviews that come with her crown. "For me, Miss America is the ultimate," says Akin, who has participated in at least 100 professional beauty pageants since the age of five. She has picked up a few expert techniques along the way. She shrink- wrapped herself in Saran Wrap for three or four nights before one competition...
...imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions, A Passage to India and The Jewel in the Crown. These are echoes of an era when Third World nations did not proclaim their right to be like their colonizers but were romantically, reassuringly different...