Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails, a more distinguished passenger is Columbus, in chains, with a ham actor's pride in his martyrdom; still hopeful, hot-eyed, still straining after the Golden City of Cambaluc...
...With the savage chant of Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! ringing in his ears, he entered his automobile, began a triumphal journey to the Chancellery as crowds cheered and wept themselves into hysteria. On either side swastika banners covered the building fronts, garlands of flowers hung across the street on golden cords, bands thundered out continuously his favorite Badenweiler March. The pavement beneath was a multicolored blanket of flowers strewn by white-bloused Hitler Maidens. Overhead the sun shone bright. It was a happy...
...Aztec Montezuma by posing as Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god, and then methodically subdued the Indians with blunderbuss and broadsword. For the next 200-odd years New Spain, ruled from Mexico City but extending for a time as far as South Carolina, experienced what some historians have called a Golden Age. The Spaniards brought with them horses (but used the Indians as men of burden), wheat (the Indians still eat maize tortillas), such things as woolen blankets, armchairs, caps (for which the Indians exchanged jewels, silver, gold). The only things the Spaniards gave the Indians were smallpox, influenza and tuberculosis...
...Americans have a major share in the sins of omission which have led to the present debacle. We proclaimed the golden vision of a League of Nations. ... It was a moral, if you will, a religious issue. There was a precious opportunity for church and synagogue to champion an indispensable plan for removal of the blight of war from the earth. But the record speaks for itself. We permitted politicians and narrow-visioned isolationists to destroy the only possible good effect of the World War and have thus nullified the sacrifice of ten million lives...
against the Golden Gate's 4,200, George Washington's 3,500, San Francisco-Oakland Bay's 2,310), it is the work of famed Swiss-born, 61-year-old Engineer Othmar H. Ammann (George Washington, Hell Gate, many another great bridge) and Architect Aymar Embury...