Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen." In touring her domain and greeting her subjects, Elizabeth II is merely doing what comes naturally. Since her coronation in 1953, she has traveled 80,000 miles, far more than any other monarch in history. In 1954 she survived the loyal ecstasy of a million Australians in Sydney, who broke police lines eight times to surround the royal motorcade, shouting "Good on you, Liz and Phil!" She went to Ceylon even though nationalist agitators collected 150,000 signatures asking her to stay away. In Nigeria, without blinking, she watched the fiery charge of thousands of spear-waving warriors...
...suitor Claudio, in the hands of George Grizzard, is frankly poor; he does not seem to know what he is saying, and cannot approach the classical diction required of a Shakespearean "proper squire." Robert Blackburn is a cheerful Don Pedro; William Swetland is a good enough Leonato; and Sydney Sturgess is comely as the gentlewoman Margaret...
Injunction. In Sydney, Australia, a gunman holding up a branch of the National Bank of Australia fled without taking any money when the cashier told him, "Don't be silly...
Rains measure was $500 million over the Administration's own bill. $800 million more than the amount called for in a substitute bill written by Florida's Democratic Representative A. Sydney Herlong and backed by Republican and conservative Southern Democratic Congressmen...
Paint Your Wagon. In Sydney, Australia, a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, reformed after 25 years of boozing said: "I would love to write my life story, but I can't remember...