Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of George Patton's antics caused stiff eyebrows to twitch at headquarters. His profanity became legendary. With his flair for the spectacular, he designed, had tailored and posed in a special tank uniform : green with white buttons and black stripes. His own helmet was golden with two silver stars. (The Army declined to accept it as regulation.) With his flair for vivid phraseology, he wrote some war poetry (unpublished). With a tidy, inherited fortune he indulged his love for horses, polo, sailing boats and games...
...unholy, free-loving, fierce-fighting Hurs of Sind, unlike most haters of the British in India, indulged their hate in murderous rampages. Their sadistic, lecherous chief, the pock-marked Pir of Pagaro, ruled them from a fortress town called the "Golden Kot." There, behind walls 60 feet high and twelve feet thick, the Pir indulged his perverted whims with palaces, harems, luxury baths, torture chambers, a gold-and-marble throne...
...Hurs. Planes, tanks, cannon and parachutists invaded the sands, jungles and marshes of Sind. The Hurs had hatchets and blunderbusses. Some of them escaped by lying under water and breathing through straws, but the British wiped out most of the ringleaders and fanatics, battered down the walls of Golden...
Beginning next Monday the contest will be weekly, with other lovelies following the golden-tongued, starry-eyed veteran of the hazards of adolescence, "the little girl" who has grown up with America's youth." Meanwhile, students are sharpening their pocketbooks for the big race...
...sleeper, Hitler's Children, made by an unknown producer, Edward A. Golden, with a starless cast, on a small budget ($170,000), has already grossed $1,000,000 and broken attendance records almost everywhere it has been shown...