Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something to see. Broadway Designer Jo Mielziner had spent a wad of State Department money on its four golden, velour columns (for the Four Freedoms), its blue backdrop, the semicircle of 46 United Nations flags, the floodlighting. The effect was just about right-not dull, not gaudy...
...laymen have ever heard of the golden hamster-but they are likely to hear of it from now on. Thousands of hamsters are being raised in U.S., British and Canadian laboratories. The furry, golden-brown, short-tailed rodent is a serious rival to the guinea...
From Saudi Arabia came the only royalty. Prince Faisal, son of King Ibn Saud, wore a snow-white burnoose and golden head cord, maintained Mohammedan sobriety, but was not above spending an evening with his delegation at the circus in New York...
Gold was something for reparations experts to worry about. General Earnest's intelligence officers were more interested in the three billion German marks. That currency might turn out to be a prize of golden military value. Banker Vieck remarked that the German Army desperately needed it to meet its payrolls. It was irreplaceable: Germany's money-engraving plants had been bombed...
Last week, with 35 years and three months of work behind him, Father Schlueter retired from St. Luke's. Now white-haired and plump, he said that his age (67) and poor health had taken him into "the golden evening" of his life. He wanted to devote that evening to preaching missions and conducting retreats...