Word: golde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decrease of 30 per cent," Murphy says, adjusting the gold braid on his officer's cap. "When you consider that half of all people that steal cars are juveniles, then that represents a considerable drop in juvenile crime." There also have been significant auto theft declines in other suburbs of Boston...
...captain Jeff Campbell snared Harvard's only first in the 1000-yd. run. Campbell coyly stayed on Penn's John Stockel's shoulder through most of the race, then blew past the quavering Quaker to bring home the gold...
While we're talking about resembling Christ: Did Jesus wear elaborately embroidered gowns of silk and velvet, or jewelry of gold and precious gems; live in a palace filled with servants and priceless...
Sudden Impulse. At the other end of the scale, some card companies are establishing a hierarchy among their holders. American Express, besides its familiar green card, issued a gold card to clients who qualify to borrow $2,000 or more on their signatures. By checking a box on his American Express bill, a cardholder gets an instant loan. Carte Blanche has a gold card too; it is good for two years, unlike ordinary cards that have to be renewed annually...
...Vassar to stay. The college has joyously accepted from the daughter of Twain's grandniece Jean Webster McKinney, '01, a collection of the 19th century humorist's letters and notebooks. They contain their share of Twainian "stretchers," or exaggerations. From the gold camps of the West he wrote: "I have had my whiskers and moustaches as full of alkali dust that you'd have thought I worked in a starch factory and boarded in a flour barrel." Twain might have been less than joyous about the whole affair; he once said that "all private letters...