Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reception thrown by Panama's Arias. Milling through the brilliantly lit yellow chamber were hundreds of guests, the men in uniforms or white dinner jackets, the women resplendent in luxurious gowns and sparkling jewels. With his fellow Presidents, Ike received from his host a magnificent gold-and-white enamel necklace decorated with Indian designs, two stars and a miniature medal...
...hands were clasped, his gaunt face was impassive. To the right, in a jury box, were the seven members of the court-martial, six Marine officers and a Navy doctor. On the dais in front, the court's law officer, Navy Captain Irving Klein, surveyed the room through gold-rimmed spectacles, smiled fleetingly, nodded and said gently: "Proceed...
Before dawn the recorded radio beat of tom-toms sounded out across the cocoa plantations and straw-hut villages of the Gold Coast, awakening hundreds of African officials and thousands of voters, the tribal cry of darkest Africa summoning everybody to an election. All day the voters calmly queued up outside the polling huts, picked up their ballots, had their thumbs smeared with indelible ink to prevent duplicate voting, walked into the huts and dropped their ballots into boxes...
...with a total of $178,200. At New Jersey's Monmouth race track, Veteran Trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons had his millionaire charge Nashua running as if he needed the money, and the big bay won the Monmouth Handicap by 3½ lengths. In California's Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park, Jockey Willie Shoemaker eased up and still did not stop Rex Ellsworth's Swaps from winning and setting a track record (1:58 3/5 for 1¼ miles...
Manjiro worked as a farm hand, went whaling again, and in 1849 worked his way around the Horn to California, where he prospected for gold. He did not strike it rich, but he saved enough to realize his aim of getting back to Japan and his mother. Foreign ships were not permitted to enter Japanese harbors, but a U.S. captain agreed to drop Manjiro and two of his friends in a small boat which Manjiro had bought and taken aboard. Seventeen days out of Hawaii, the Japanese went over the side, four miles off Ryukyu. Manjiro was home...