Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's squash team finished last season at 7-0--good enough for first place. The racquet-women will shoot for their second consecutive league crown this winter, and with two freshman joining a strong corps of returning players, the Crimson figures to be the team to beat once again. The freshmen are Clark of McLean, Va. and Daphine Onderdok of Phildelphia...
Foreign shopping fever reaches even into the country's remote fastnesses. When the brash British raider Sir James Goldsmith calculated that U.S. timberland was becoming a tempting prize, he launched a $500 million takeover bid at San Francisco's Crown Zellerbach paper company in order to grab the corporation's vast forests. As a result of the 1985 takeover, Goldsmith now owns 1.9 million acres of American forests in Washington State and Oregon...
...woman wearing a crown of green mountain ferns and drapery that looks vaguely Grecian stands alone, arms upraised, and chants in a strong voice to ancient gods. This is polite and also prudent. Kau'i Zuttermeister, 78, is a hula dancer, and she accepts mainland Christianity, first brought to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 by missionaries. But her uncle Sam Pua Haaheo, an elderly kahuna, or expert practitioner, who taught her the chants, dances and drumming patterns of traditional hula 60 years ago, told her to "pray first to the gods of your forefathers. They were here first...
While Le Clip is not likely to overtake Swatch anytime soon, the watch has already been honored by knockoff artists. Three factories producing Le Clip copies were recently closed down in Hong Kong. Company officials hope the half a million fakes in a crown colony cellar never see the light...
...Murphy and former King of Boxing Muhammad Ali in attendance, King presented Tyson with a blue chinchilla robe, a jeweled necklace and a scepter. After King shouted, "Long live the heavyweight king! Long live the king!", six trumpeters dressed in Elizabethan tunics blared a fanfare, and Ali placed a crown, studded with what King described as "baubles, rubies and fabulous doodads," on Tyson's head. Muttered the clearly embarrassed sovereign: "Does this mean I'm going to get bigger purses?" A more urgent question for Tyson: When he faces his first challenger, Tyrell Biggs, on Oct. 16 in Atlantic City...