Word: topper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Mills' hottest box-topper has been a 15 radioactive polonium ring that drew 2,000,000 requests...
...greeted by Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman a well-earned honor-the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...
...party tossed by West Coast Financier Bert Lytton, Kennedy took off again, in a chartered DC-6, for New York and a peaceful night away from the social demands of the capital. He got his final fittings for his inauguration outfit (cutaway, grey waistcoat, striped pants, topper), ordered a few business suits at $225 apiece, got a checkup from his dentist ("No cavities'') and hopped on the plane for Washington again...
...last someone has topped the notorious Marie Antoinette, who, when told that the people of France had no bread, replied: "Let them eat cake." The topper is the Administration's proposal for a voluntary medical plan for aged persons of low income groups. In order to qualify for the proposed Medicare, an elderly person would have to scrape up $274, or a couple, $448. Do the backers of this plan know what it's like not to have $448? Or $48? Or 48?? Many old people...