Word: dorado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conquistadors, the legend was a promise of fabled riches-a great lost city or a temple filled with treasures or perhaps an entire mountain of gold. Indeed, El Dorado (Spanish for "the gilded one") may well have had a basis in fact. Folklore holds that Colombia's Muisca Indians, who dwelt in the highlands near present-day Bogotá, installed their kings by dusting their naked bodies with gold and then washing them in nearby Lake Guatavita. To complete the ritual, they dropped gold and jewels into the holy waters as offerings to their...
...Dorado has materialized in the U.S. Last week more than 500 objects of Colombian gold went on exhibit at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Most of these treasures-which next year will travel to Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans-come from Bogotá's Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), which has collected some 26,000 ancient gold pieces, often buying them up from guaqueros (professional tomb robbers) who otherwise would probably sell them to foreign collectors...
...Homestake contribution could be encompassed in a solid gold cube 12 ft. to a side, worth at present prices about $10 billion. But at Homestake, the road to El Dorado is mostly dark, deep, hot and dirty. The gold keeps getting harder to find and the tunnels and shafts grow deeper and longer. There are now 250 miles of underground cart tracks, and some shafts plunge so deep toward the earth's molten core that the temperature reaches 135° F. Expenses go on rising. It now costs $200 to extract each ounce of Homestake gold. That is high...
...Francisco, Everyman's El Dorado, brought in 905 conventions, 804,000 delegates, $296 million. Attractions: 25,000 hotel rooms, 541,000 sq. ft. exhibition space; museums, opera, symphony, theater, restaurants, cable cars, atmosphere, views, the wine country...
...nature of the profession is to follow after the limelight. If you're Tom Penders, a new El Dorado always beckons...