Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity and Junior Varsity, together with two spares from the thirds, left Boston last night on the midnight and will have an opportunity to work out twice on the Severn river today before paddling to the starting line in defense of the golden cup, won by the Crimson for the past three years...
...took a lot of courage to stick to Whirlaway. Bred at Millionaire Wright's farm in the heart of the Blue Grass, he is a colt of whom Kentuckians might well be proud: a handsome golden chestnut with a tail that almost sweeps the ground. But Whirlaway has inherited a tendency to run out (veer away from the inside rail) at the turns. That trait cost him several important races last year (he was defeated nine times in 16 starts). But Whirlaway proved that he is a stretch-running fool...
...sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could do with serious, non-Negro music, Harold Schmidt put on Swiss Arthur Honegger's choral work, King David. Fisk jubileers and their guests greeted the festival with everything from foot-tapping to wild applause...
...understand government, and 2) that is a good thing. Since he has been deadlocked with the legislature for two and a half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator, and hie himself to Washington...
From this juncture the camera frequently scans pages from the Centuries. Most favored prophecy: "The young lion will conquer the old one upon the field in a single combat. He will pierce his eye in a golden cage, who will then die a dreadful death." This meant nothing until Henry II died after a joust with the Count of Montgomery. A lance penetrated his golden visor, pierced his eye. That established Nostradamus as a prophet...