Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walkover (only 18 in the U.S. since 1910) as the popular headliner who had scared away eight rivals: Warren Wright's twinkle-toed Whirlaway. A sort of Veronica Lake of the turf, Whirly can draw a crowd even if he does nothing but swish his long golden tail...
...Ocean of Consciousness. To Occidentals, no Hindu deity is stranger than Kali. "She wears necklaces of gold and pearls, a golden garland of human heads, and a girdle of human arms. . . . She has four arms. The lower left hand holds a severed human head and the upper grips a bloodstained saber. One right hand offers boons to Her children; the other allays their fear. The majesty of Her posture can hardly be described. It combines the terror of destruction with the reassurance of motherly tenderness...
...wonder how many of us realize that at the present time there is a golden opportunity to win Soviet Russia into the fraternity of freedom-loving peoples, after she had willfully isolated herself from the rest of the world for more than 20 years...
Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...
Actually there was no longer any reason why these reforms should be postponed. For the taxes had not only frozen capital markets, they had also killed the goose that laid the golden egg: Federal revenues from capital-gains taxes dropped from $576,000,000 in 1928 to $13,000,000 in 1940 and to zero-or perhaps an actual deficit-last year...