Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police spokesman included Carlo Gambino, "boss of all bosses" of organized crime in the New York area, in the list of underworld figures to be questioned in the slaying of Eboli, found early Sunday morning in Brooklyn's Crown Heights district...
...raising is Fischer's specialty. Four years ago, he withdrew from international competition, accusing the "lying, cheating Russians" of denying him the world title that was rightfully his. Eighteen months later he stormed right back, knocking off one grand master after another to win a crack at the crown in Reykjavík. Then, on the eve of the showdown, he went into hiding, began delivering ultimatums and kept tournament officials waiting and wondering if he would ever show up. Fischer's demand was a familiar one: he wanted more money. Not satisfied with a record purse...
Hamlet is a loser. He loses his father, his crown and the woman he loves. His university chums betray him, his sanity all but deserts him, and at 30, he dies by the poisoned tip of a rapier...
...some of the great explorer's fine sketches of such things as Indian attacks and French settlements. The drawings seem remarkably realistic, although he was not above sketching in an occasional palm tree on the shores of Lake Champlain. Morison roundly deals with the foolishness of the French crown, the vagaries of the fur trade, the hardihood of explorers (imagine mosquitoes swarming inside your steel breastplate) and the rigors of Indian cuisine...
...Imperial Margarine, in which a crown appears on the head of a man when he bites into a slice of bread buttered-whoops-spread with Imperial...