Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politics has allegedly raised its ugly head out in the Golden West, and 6,000 Californians are hopping mad over the whole thing...
...establishment of Yard intramurals should show results that improve with each year. Although Freshman interest in such a program is now high, officials who are mulling over plans should not expect the Class of '52 to usher in the golden age, just as they can hardly devise a foolproof scheme without some trial and error. But whatever system is finally decided upon, a fully-realized program of Yard sports will give new life to Freshman activities in general, as well as to inter-House athletics...
...Laurent had said, without equivocation, that "it is impossible to cooperate with Communism." The country agreed with him wholeheartedly. As one political wiseacre put it: "This is a golden opportunity. For once, Quebec and the rest of Canada have the same enemy...
...Room. Some of the European countries found that they had oversold their attractions. Sweden even bought ads in U.S. newspapers discouraging midsummer travel-its hotels were full. But most still had the welcome mat out. The Netherlands was advertising the Queen's Golden Jubilee; Belgium plugged two international fairs and the famed Belgian cuisine; Norway touted its fjords; Britain listed the Olympics, horse races and regattas; Italy had an arm-long series of fairs and festivals from hot jazz to trapshooting. Europeans hoped that U.S. tourists would spend $300 million this year, twice as much...
...island, over the vast peaks of the Watamai Mountains. It is in itself an incident in the war superior to most war fiction, the patrol through a wonderland of grass growing higher than the heads of the men, spiders, and endless spider webs, gnats, buzzing silence, rain and sunlight, golden sand and indigo trees-a nightmare in which one after another is killed. What deepens the irony is that the campaign is successful without the benefit of either General Cummings' strategy or the heroism of the platoon...