Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puritans capitalized on a golden opportunity soon after the kickoff to produce their first touchdown. Lowell lumbied a punt on the one-yard line, Winthrop recovered, and on the next play Jimmy Lynch scored on a reverse. Dick Loomis stopped the Bellboy drive in the second period and completed one at his own 25, wound through the opposition and raced 75 yards to the goal line...
...history of this republic has been unique, not so much because of the growth of constitutional democracy but because of the social system. This system is a living embodiment of the golden mean of which I speak...
...Golden Mean...
Among those principles, which contribute to what he described as "the golden mean between destructive criticism and complacent dogma," the President included the civil liberties which are protected by the Bill of Rights, the "political machinery which enables the mass of the people to decide through elected representatives on major issues," and the protection of minority rights...
...golden mean," of which our social system and way of life is the "living embodiment" is "difficult of realization," he said, for "the free way is a hard way of life. But that part is in itself a challenge, and it is a challenge which we should every day place before our youth...