Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INJURED. CHARISMATIC, 3, this year's underdog winner of both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness; with two fractured bones in his left front leg as he came in third at Belmont, N.Y., the last race of the Triple Crown. The injury will keep him from ever racing again. In a tale now cherished by long shots, his owners had twice tried to sell the potential Triple Crown winner for a pittance but could find no takers...
...terminal decline. The expedition was the British Everest Expedition, 1953, and it was led by Colonel John Hunt, the truest of true English gentlemen. It was proper to the historical moment that one of the two climbers immortalized by the event came from a remote former colony of the Crown and the other from a nation that had long served as a buffer state of the imperial...
...Crown Prince Naruhito (with his wife Masako) is heir to a clan that claimed divinity until Japan's defeat in World War II. Imperial brides till then had come from the nobility. But the Prince's mother, the Empress Michiko, is a commoner, as is Masako...
...squeaked past contenders such as Northeastern in overtime, 7-6. No matter what the final score, the Crimson won 30 games in a row. Along the way, Harvard captured its first Beanpot championship since 1995, its first Ivy League title since 1988-89 and its first ECAC crown ever...
After losing the national crown to Princeton, Harvard won the Ivy League championship with an amazing 9-0 victory over the Yale Bulldogs...