Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yacht churned east, the amateur pirates chattered to their captives about the horrors of the prison island. Their jailers, they said, stole most of the ration allowance of 14? a day. Gold teeth were forcibly yanked from their mouths. They were housed in shacks, clothed in rags and forbidden to eat the produce they grew. For punishment they were beaten with rattan whips and hoisted by the armpits to hang in the sun all day without water...
...Ambassador to Italy James D. Zellerbach went to the Vatican, presented Pope Pius XII with 1957's George Washington Carver Memorial Institute Gold Award for the pontiff's "outstanding contribution to the betterment of race relations and human welfare." (1956 winner: D wight D. Eisenhower.) Said His Holiness: "It is not to our humble person this award is directed, but to truth and charity, whose defense is our mission...
...braid-proud artillery officer assigned to operations and marked with the uncomfortable distinction of being the first Jew ever elevated to the French General Staff. Meanwhile, over at the German embassy, another French officer, one Major Esterhazy, is making arrangements to supplement his army pay with German gold, for which he is ready to betray French military secrets. When one of Esterhazy's treasonable notes is intercepted by French agents, the handwriting is identified by a self-styled expert as that of Captain Dreyfus. When it is pointed out to the expert that the handwriting in the note does...
...Imperial Hotel suite had a hospital hush until late in the afternoon. Explained a wan Indonesian aide: "It was a very excellent party, but now I do not feel so well." Geisha Isozaki tripped merrily off to a fashionable shop on the Ginza and bought Sukarno a 24-karat gold ear-cleaner inscribed with his name-the sort of gift that, in Japan, is made only to intimates...
...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...