Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets, and outside the villages one had seen the parachutes pouring down like crazy cotton snowflakes; one had accumulated tremendous faith in this power. But this power had been pushed back, now, deep into Russia, had been cut at Smolensk, cupped at Leningrad, driven even beyond the ancient Golden Gate of Kiev...
Rabaul has the legendary South Seas beauty of a very blue harbor, of casuarina and golden-fruited paupau trees, of silk-swathed Chinese and darkly graceful natives who dye their woolly hair in vivid colors and call a shower bath "washwash on top." During World War I, when part of New Guinea was taken over from Ger many, the Australians told them about the change of sovereignty as follows: "Me been talk with you now, now you give three cheers belongina new feller master. No more um Kaiser. God save um King...
...heart of Detroit's "black bottom"). There Joe learned to box. At first he disliked it, preferred handball. But within a year, Joe Barrow was the best fighter in the Center, won a silver cup as the most outstanding novice light-heavyweight in Detroit's Golden Gloves tournament...
Harry Brown's delightful "The Brief, Unfinished History of John Cudlow" stands out as a fantasy of the professional magazines to which its author regularly contributes. The account of what happens to hen-pecked Mr. Cudlow when he begins to lay a large golden egg every morning lives up to its highest potentialities. The legendary goose had nothing on our John Cudlow...
Peddie, who would rather listen to his favorite Golden Gophers on the radio than watch Harvard trounce Yale, is no mean sportsman himself. He was a member of the Varsity golf team and worked up a College-wide reputation as a ping pong artist...