Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Half a century ago, when he was 19, Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan boarded the battleship Katori for a six-month grand tour of Europe. The trip only whetted his appetite for more: in Paris, he told an American newsman that he hoped a visit to the U.S. would only be a briefly "deferred pleasure." It turned out to be a long postponement. Soon after he returned home in 1921, Hirohito was declared Prince Regent for his deranged father; by 1926 he was Emperor, and a few years later Japan embarked on the ill-starred experiment in expansionism that finally...
...fabulous catches that saved games, and catches are the images that stay frozen longest--the enduring moments of baseball lore. The mind can catch them better, better than any hit short of a Mazeroski or Thompson job. And Rice was expected to do well--he won the Triple Crown in the International League last year. It's only been one season, but there's always a Lou Gehrig, even when he's a different and incomparable star in the same sky that holds Babe Ruth...
...Field" this year all centered around Loyalty. Loyalty is a concept of much debate among the Unionists (those seeking to perpetuate union with the United Kingdom) since Enoch Powell, the Official Unionist M.P. from South Down said the week before that a proper Loyalist should be "loyal to the Crown in Parliament: the Parliament of the United Kingdom." Every Unionist faction had denounced Powell's commitment to Parliament by the Twelfth, supporting instead the "constitutional Protestant majority," for them the Crown...
Most of the speeches at "The Field" seemed to echo Martin Smyth, Imperial Grand Master of the Orange Institution, who pledged his allegiance to the Crown. "The Monarchy stands for the highest and best of our Constitutional procedures," Smyth said. "All things are done in the name of Her Majesty whether it is a result of foolish counsel by her ministers...
Restic does have a lot of key people back from last season, and if he can fill the major gaps, the Crimson will be in the running for a second straight Ivy crown in what should prove to be another wild Ivy League season...