Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams defeated Leverett, 12 to 0, yesterday to tie Dunster for the House football championship. But the Gold Coasters then lost a coin toss and Dunster will be the team to play Yale's champion Branford College here Friday...
Dunster yesterday missed an opportunity to clinch the House football title, by losing to Winthrop, 7 to 6. The Funster loss might give Adams a tie for first, if the Gold Coasters defeat Leverett today...
...sleek, black colt looked like a winner. Highbred and proud, Landau moved out of the paddock under the royal purple, gold and scarlet silks of his owner, Queen Elizabeth II. But his reputation had preceded him to the U.S. Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...
...part of that policy, the U.S. should relax East-West trade restrictions. For example, said Randall: "Emotion and political controversy seem to block our disposal of agricultural surpluses by direct sale to Russia or other Communist-controlled countries in exchange for gold. Yet here are markets which we might be able to enter without serious damage to our friends ... It is sometimes said that by taking Russian gold we somehow strengthen their economy. But the effort put into production of gold in Russia would by hypothesis be effort withdrawn from the field of heavy industry or munition making...
...wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye. An old man now, who, in the nature of things, might be called, out of the house any minute. Little left now but a minute to take a drink at the door . . . Here, with whitened hair...