Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today," said Crimson Coach Johnny Lee. "We expected a close match, but this is still very discouraging," he added. A Crimson victory on Saturday at the I.A.B., combined with a probable triumph over Yale next weekend, would have secured for Harvard its first Ivy wrestling crown. Instead, the Crimson can only wonder what went wrong...
...bonded shoppers and bred loyalty. Up to its final day of business on January 7, employees operated the store's elevators and delivery men drove dark green tracks along familiar routes. People came not only to stop, but also to make travel arrangements and rub shoulders with an eclectic crown of shoppers. Hudson's reportedly employed clerks of more than a dozen nationalities to accommodate immigrant customers...
Harvard wrestling has learned the hard way that winning is not as natural as breathing. However, with only two losses on its record, the squad can still become the best in Crimson history. The team can still that long awaited Ivy League crown...
Businessman Arthur Miller was beaten to death by 16 policemen. Miller's brother, Samuel, was fighting with two officers who sought to arrest him for driving without a license in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Arthur Miller joined the battle, and more police were summoned. Some 16 officers "swarmed" Miller, who died of "pressure applied to throat." A series of demonstrations followed, one of which drew 2000 participants. A grand jury acquitted all 16 officers, saying there was no evidence of brutality in the case...
...conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most of his grand designs. Stylized, curvilinear and faintly kinky, she is identified by her festoon of jewels, trailing furs or crown of feathers. Often accompanying her, on a diamond-studded leash, is a borzoi or a leopard...