Word: emeralds
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...years ago, when the tiny (720 sq. mi.) Indian Ocean island won independence from Britain, one might have got the idea that it was serving as a model for a less elevated region. Ringed by silver sands and azure waters, dotted with scarlet flame trees and emerald sugar plantations, it was suffering nonetheless from economic stagnation, staggering unemployment and mounting racial tensions. At least 24 people died in savage riots just before the independence ceremonies, and Britain had to fly in troops from Singapore to restore order...
...ignored in favor of an even more pressing issue. Little more than a week before the start of the cup matches in Mexico City, Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup soccer team, was arrested in Bogotá, Colombia, on charges of stealing a $1,400 emerald-studded bracelet. The jeweler filed suit for an extra $11,000 in "moral damages," and police picked up hints that Soccer Superstar Bobby Charlton had been Moore's accomplice. Moore is now free on "conditional liberty," but Charlton's wife Norma is still indignant: "They are a right load...
...than he at writing about "silly young Lords, who drink champagne in the morning, and marvelous new 1920s women, who swear (ever so slightly) and are bored with silly young Lords." His greatest confection was Iris March (in The Green Hat), a fell lady who seductively drops her keepsake emerald on the floor in Chapter 1, but finally dies, for love and honor, in a flaming yellow Hispano-Suiza...
...started with the electric eels, only to discover that the large ??l had been replaced by a diminuitive imposter. Perhaps the former resident had rudely scorched an impetuous glass-thumper to ashes and been retired. The wave machine was impressive. For an awesome instant, impossible to determine, the emerald mass reverse curls and thrusts itself back over itself in mighty interference. But empty water quickly becomes tedious, so we hurried to the first fish of note, the orange Garibaldi. He bore little if any resemblance to the Italian nationalist, resembling rather a stationary section of antipasto. From Garibaldi we walked...
These two are the basis of a diamond-hard reputation. Yet, the lady would rather be compared to an emerald. An emerald as big as a boardroom conference table adorns her right hand. On her left is a tear-shaped stone that could have originated only in the eye of a crocodile. She will be 80 on May 15, and the jewels she wears to parties in her honor are the recently won trophies of a long campaign. The stories, many of them set in her native Texas, brought honors, fellowships, sabbaticals in Hollywood and the rest of the grants...