Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zayyat: The Israeli attitude has been to assume that they were invincible and that we were meek and weak. They pictured Egyptians as people who would never fight. The fighting spirit of the American colonies came about because you refused the serenity of living under the British Crown. Well, we don't like the serenity-Mr. Eban's word-of being occupied. The argument that this occupied territory serves as a protective buffer for Israel-that was the argument of Hitler. What we're asking for is very simple: that our territorial integrity and the rights...
Japan's Imperial Household Agency, which keeps a little list of royal dos and don'ts, was aghast. As her parents, Crown Prince Akihito, 39, and Princess Michiko, 39, left Tokyo's Togu Palace for a ten-day official tour of Spain, their daughter, Nori, 4, planted on her mother's cheek the first public Imperial kiss. While the royal family does occasionally come out from behind its chrysanthemum curtain-Empress Nagako was recently permitted to exhibit her water-colors-such decadent occidentalism as kissing in public was unprecedented. However, it proved catching: arriving in Madrid...
Harvard garnered 461.4 points, placed first in two events and among the top six in three others, while far outdistancing runners-up MIT, Princeton and the Cambridge Boat Club for the overall crown...
...loss to the Crimson, the Big Red is looking for revenge. It will be a contest between Harvard's stellar defense and Cornell's experienced, ground-gaining offense. The game, which will be televised, could eventually prove to be the game that decides the Ivy League crown...
...this late date, the yielding up of an imperial crown for the hand of Wallis Warfield Simpson cannot remotely claim the urgency and import that H.L. Mencken once assigned to it when he called it "the greatest story since the Resurrection." Ryton is a slave to the egalitarian fallacy-namely, that under the trappings of royalty lie simple everyday souls who have their ups and downs just like thee...