Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere on the class A courts, Adams bounced to an easy 50-38 win over Dunster, coming up from a halftime score of 20-21. Largely responsible for the Gold Coasters' victory were high scorer Frank Holt, with 14 points, and Bob Parker and Roger Davis with 13 tallies each...
Early one day this week, the two Noble Guards in front of the Pope's private apartment clanked their halberds as they came to attention. Pope Pius appeared on the threshold, solemnly robed in a red velvet shoulder cape and a gold-embroidered stole...
Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...
...keep her employees happy, she set up group insurance, retirement and medical plans, awarded gold badges and bonuses for good work. Since many of her 600 employees are women, she promoted women into executive jobs. Such benevolent maternalism allowed her to run an open shop for years. When the union arrived in 1946, it was a conservative union of which Mrs. Kerr could approve. The A.F. of L.'s Glass Bottle Blowers' Association hasn't had a major strike in 58 years...
When Armorel falls in love with Gian she devotes her life to improving him, passionately believing that under his simple-simian surface he has a heart of gold (which is true) and a fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...