Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give fans a lift. "I try not to get involved emotionally," he says, "but the feelings can sneak up on you. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about horse racing, but when I watched Secretariat come down the stretch at Belmont Park in 1973 to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, even I had chills down my spine...
...also a gigantic down-to-earth workshop, where imagination is turned into practical products and services. To one degree or another, Bell Labs has been responsible for most of the innovations in voice communications in this century. That is why AT&T was so anxious to keep this corporate crown jewel, when the Government forced the telephone company to spin off some of its operations...
Ever since the signing of the Camp David accords, the Arab states have been bitterly divided. Most of them opposed Camp David but lacked the unity of purpose to present an alternative. Last year Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Fahd proposed a peace plan that might, at least, have formed a basis for negotiation. In effect, the plan would offer Arab recognition, or at least acceptance, to Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from Arab territory seized in the 1967 war. But, when presented to a pan-Arab summit conference in Fez, Morocco, last October, the proposal proved...
...injury that could not happen. He was the player who could not get hurt, not if the Crimson were to challenge Penn and Princeton for the Ivy League basketball crown this winter...
...revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that was banned by the Communists...