Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CROWN MATRIMONIAL
...Crown Matrimonial, British Playwright Royce Ryton qualifies as one of the grounds keepers of history. He rakes up a pile of yellowed 1936 newspaper clippings to reassemble the tale of how Edward VIII abdicated his kingship in order to marry "the woman I love...
Last October, Charley Finley's Oakland Athletics brought color into the series and left Cincinati red. In 1971, the AL's Orioles took the crown, but in '70 the Reds copped the title. 1969 was the year of the miracle Mets, and '68 saw the Tigers take it all. But at any rate, the World Series remains the true test of baseball talent. Much more indicative than, say, the mid-season All-Star game...
...true to form, I'm rooting for the Oakland Athletics to take the Series, which they will, although it will probably take them six games to wrangle the crown from the Mets...
...Buddhist parents' home for renouncing their faith, Cho huddled in his shabby lodgings one night, praying for a full recovery. "Suddenly the room was filled with light," he recalls. "I looked about me and saw two feet. I did not know who he was until I saw the crown of thorns piercing his temple, the blood streaming down. My lips and tongue began to speak in a strange language...