Word: golden
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...Georgian born and his accent is still thick, but he had done much for Moscow; he had come to think of himself as a native Muscovite. He was not a sentimental man; he would not cry over the white city's antiquities, Imperial Russia's Golden Head, the 40-times-40 spires. But he would brood if anything happened to the parachute tower in the Park of Culture and Rest. He would be angry when the new buildings, neither garishly cubist nor grotesquely baroque because he personally had censored the architects' renderings, were bombed. He, for whom...
Hold, hold the golden light and lift...
Started in 1931 by politically-minded Eugene Biscailuz, Los Angeles County Sheriff and unofficial gladhander, dude-riding posses gained momentum after San Francisco, not to be outdone, formed a mounted posse for the opening (1937) of its Golden Gate Bridge. Today, nearly every self-respecting California sheriff has a posse of gentlemen riders...
After graduation (1875) he went to Germany, studied bacteriology, biochemistry, pathology. That was the golden age of bacteriology, when men like Pasteur, Koch and Ehrlich were starting their researches. But in the U.S. there was not one pathology laboratory. Medical education was cut and dried; students memorized lecture notes, had no experimental and little clinical training...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...