Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, Class of1853, said in an elegy to John Harvard in 1884,"He will teach that one disinterested deed of hopeand faith may crown a brief and broken life withdeathless fame. He will teach that the good whichmen do lives after them, fructified and multipliedbeyond all power of measurement or computation. Hewill teach that from the seed which he planted inloneliness, weakness and sorrow, have sprung joy,strength and energy ever fresh, blooming yearafter year in the garden of learning...
...broke my heart," said Auctioneer Alan Erlichman. "Opulence and waste . . . It's a sacrilege." In fact, though Mrs. Marcos had stuffed the house with sugarplums, in recent years she had seldom spent a night there. In New York, she preferred to sleep in the penthouse of the posh Crown Building, which she owned, or to take a set of suites at the Waldorf-Astoria. As yet another cushion in the disco at East 66th Street points out, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere...
...Boston's long-suffering throng have been torn asunder by the team's uncanny ability--especially in recent years--to lose, no matter how good the chances of winning seem. Years like 1946, 1949, 1972, 1974, and 1978 proved that the Sox are a team of destiny--but crown back home...
...Queen is unhappy with her Prime Minister, it may be because she wears more than one crown. She is also head of the Commonwealth, a club of former British colonies, which some believe Thatcher is goading toward a full- scale crisis. The member nations' scorn of Thatcher's "negotiations, not sanctions" policy only deepened last week after an uninspiring meeting between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and South African State President P.W. Botha...
...companies may flinch at the sight of Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens, but in the retailing business the marauders to watch out for are Herbert Haft, 65, and his son Robert, 33, of Washington. As the owners of Dart Group, which runs the Crown Books and Trak Auto chains, the Hafts always seem to be shopping around for a major retailer. In the past two years they have bought large blocks of stock in May Department Stores and two pharmacy chains, Jack Eckerd and Revco. In each case the Hafts' move drove up the price of the stock...