Word: crowne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crown it all, ten minutes after the audience learns of the incest, it is revealed that Mr. Pascal disappeared inexplicably on November 22, 1963--at precisely the same second that Kennedy was shot. Did the Pascal family carry their Kennedy obsession too far and kill him? Or is it just one of the many coincidences that abound in the House of Yes? We never quite find out, but we never stop guessing...
...during my stay in London, a biographer named Claire Tomalin, told me that to this day she converts a restaurant check back into the old pounds, shillings and pence so that she can, as she was raised to do, calculate the tip at two and six (or half a crown) for each pound...
...berth into the NCAA playoffs may hang in the balance of this critical game against Yale. Having dropped the season opener to Pennsylvania, a second-divisional loss would almost surely kill Harvard's chances at the divisional crown-and an automatic play-off spot...
...year, 1987, not only marked Harvard's last victory of at least 38 points-a 42-3 pasting of Dartmouth-and its last lvy League crown, but it also represents the Crimson's last winning season. If this is not to be a breakthrough season for the Harvard football team, someone is playing a very cruel joke...
...civilizations. The first temples there were constructed between 1460 B.C. and 1200 B.C., during the relatively brief period when Egypt ruled Nubia. Kendall believes the Egyptians chose this particular craggy hill for a royal sanctuary because, when seen from a distance, Jebel Barkal's silhouette resembles, even today, a crown adorned with a cobra, which is a symbol of royal power. The Egyptians believed Jebel Barkal to be a prime residence of the god Amun, the bestower of royal authority--a notion that was later taken up by the Nubians. About 730 B.C., when the Nubians rose up and conquered...