Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth must have read the papers, for the next day, at the Bonn city hall, she was positively beaming. When she laid a wreath on the nearby Beethoven monument, the crowd responded with loud cheers and chants of "Elizabet, Eliz-a-bet." That night, after entertaining 88 dignitaries at dinner atop the Petersberg, the Queen and her guests stepped onto the terrace to watch "The Rhine in Flames," a dramatic fireworks display that covered the river halfway to Coblenz, 30 miles away...
Like his predecessor MacLeish. Fitzgerald's career has included journalism as well as poetry. His first book, "Poems," was published in 1935 while he was a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1936 he began writing business and financial news for Time magazine. His second book. "A Wreath for the Sea," was published in 1943, the same year he left Time to serve in the U.S. Naval Reserve...
...further precaution, the Queen's itinerary includes only two major public appearances: a children's rally in Charlottetown and a wreath-laying at Ottawa's National War Memorial. Beyond that, the Queen will attend 18 invitation-only functions, deliver two nationally televised addresses...
...monument last week strode the latest Liberator of the Congo, Premier Moise Tshombe, onetime leader of secessionist Katanga and the man whom most Congolese hold responsible for Lumumba's murder. Standing poker-faced in a tepid drizzle, Tshombe solemnly deposited a wreath at the foot of the portrait, bowed his head in silence. Later he delivered a speech that drew wild applause from at least 5,000 of Lumumba's former followers. "You have suffered too much from strings pulled abroad. The Congolese will not be valets of colonialists and imperialists...
...Belmont. Let's get the Belmont.' Then I hit him twice." Quadrangle pulled away like an Atlas leaving the pad. At the wire, he was two lengths ahead of Roman Brother, six ahead of Northern Dancer. Jockey Ycaza plucked two white carnations from the wreath around Quadrangle's neck. "One for my wife," he explained, "and one for little Manuelito." For himself, Ycaza plucked something even sweeter: a 10% slice of the $110,850 winner's purse...