Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Victoria at her first Parliament, Elizabeth II has not yet been crowned. Her crown was borne before her on a crimson cushion by the Marquess of Salisbury; a coronet of diamonds and pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down...
...first world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds his twelfth world three-cushion bilHard title (TIME, March 17). Along Willie's ivory-clicking way, he won 39 other world championships, and set exhibition records that may never be equaled (e.g., an 18.1 balkline run of 622; 25 points in a row in the difficult three-cushion game...
...Treasury Andrew Mellon, whose only formula, says Hoover, was: "Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate." Hoover says that he rejected Mellon's advice, acted promptly after the crash, and was the first President ever to make full use of his powers to cushion a national economic shock. He promoted federal works projects and expanded the federal employment service. Calling in business leaders, he got their promise that capital expenditures would go on and that wages would not be cut. But they often were. Nevertheless, says Hoover, such "indirect relief" measures sufficed to provide a "comparatively...
...fourth frame Johnson's long four-bagger over leftfielder Amos Dickson's head gave the Crimson what appeared to be a comfortable three-run cushion. It was his second circuit blow of the season and his seventh, eight, and ninth runs batted...
...Rittenberg, Jerre Kneip, and Lee Hard swept both hurdle races to provide the freshmen with a sufficient cushion to coast to their decisive win. Rittenberg scored 18 points in the meet...