Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Halfway along the route, a waving welcomer in a roadside tree stuck his hand into a beehive, loosing a swarm of stingers that rapidly dispersed the crowd. Apiphobia spread-both literally and figuratively. That night, at the state banquet in Diamond Jubilee Hall, President Nyerere also indicated a reluctance to get stung. Coolly thanking Chou for the $45 million in Chinese aid pledges Tanzania has accepted (but not yet received), Nyerere declared: "We have to guard the sovereignty and integrity of our united republic against any who wish to take advantage of our current need in order to get control...
...found himself confronted by blonde Suzanne Devine, the 500 Festival queen. Ordinarily, winners kiss the queen; coolly Clark shook her hand. He professed to be unimpressed by the extent of his winnings: $140,000 for finishing first, another $28,500 in lap money, a Plymouth automobile, a ring, a diamond-studded pin, $1,000 worth of clothes. "What will you do with it?" Clark was asked. "I don't know. Colin Chapman will decide that...
...Ohio Match Co., which was churning out millions of matchbooks with Hunt recipes on the cover, seemed to Simon worth more than its stock was selling at. He began buying in, got controlling interest in 1946 by snapping up a 20% block of Ohio stock that the bigger Diamond Match Co. had been forced to surrender by federal order. From matches Simon turned to railroads, using Ohio Match money to buy a substantial block of stock in the Northern Pacific Railway...
...FEET TALL. A rough-cut diamond thief (Edward G. Robinson) and a wandering British boy (Fergus McClelland) get together for some refreshing runaway adventures in modern Africa...
...appear to be following in the footsteps of the Israelites. Forced to abandon their ancestral village by the construction of a British dam that will soon inundate their homes, the Masai head for dry promised land under the leadership of a conman named Moses. Moses is Robert Mitchum, a diamond smuggler and quack doctor who peddles muscle tonic to the natives, packs precious stones in his stethoscope, and conducts his exodus with the unholier-than-thou sneer of a rascal who interprets Mosaic law as the survival of the fittest. Mitchum looks most comfortable when he climbs aboard an elephant...