Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...belly. Drunks, for instance, have a way of becoming much less troublesome if they are slapped around a little. Desk sergeants are always having trouble with smart guys who want to argue; jerking them across the desk and belting them across the jowls usually makes them good as gold. Then there are characters who don't want to talk at all-until they have ricocheted off the walls a few times...
Despite pep talks to labor, Argentine factory production is down 40%. Despite import curbs, gold and exchange resources are dropping at the rate of about $2,000,000 a day. Shortages multiply in such essentials as oil. Last week, in his own way, President Perón explained what all this meant to his Five-Year Plan: Said he: "Other governments . . . when they initiated a project calculated whether they could finish it in four or five years' time so that upon completion they could install plaques with the names of the President and his ministers. ... I have projected...
Back in the dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington...
...TIME'S readers. Four small counties in Northern California-Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Alameda (which includes the Livermore Valley) produce together less than a third of California's annual 140 million gallons. Yet, in the field of table wine, these counties won 19 out of 20 gold and all 23 silver medals...
Thirteen out of the 20 gold-medal table wines, furthermore, are sold under the name of the grape out of which they are made, as Cabernet rather than claret, Riesling rather than Rhine wine. Pinot rather than Chablis or Burgundy, Semillon rather than Sauterne. American wine names are beginning to make some real headway...