Word: golden
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Little is known about Altar de Sacrificios except that it was inhabited as far back as 500 B.C. Most of the objects and buildings found near the site date from the golden period of Maya history in the first century...
...weeks Judge Wallace, 39, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam") and a defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate last year, had been fighting efforts of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to examine the voting records of two counties in his circuit. From his bench in Montgomery, he threatened to throw any "federal police'' who came around into jail. Even after Federal Judge Johnson,directly ordered him to permit examination of the voting records. Wallace refused, instead turned them over to county grand juries he had hurriedly called. (The grand juries, in turn, later bowed before...
...Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter Indira, the distinguished guests made their way by the dancing water. They mounted the great marble steps, crossed the terrace paved with smooth white pebbles from the banks of the Ganges, passed beyond a series of slender golden columns, and disappeared behind the great golden-studded white screen. Then came the inspection of the air-conditioned offices with their doors of teak, the elaborate servants' quarters, the great aluminum shade through which the sunlight filters into dappled patterns below. "I was enchanted.'' said the Prime Minister, and the Indian newspapers spoke...
...ruling Maharajah, 65-year-old Sir Tashi Namgyal, is the eleventh in a line of consecrated Lama rulers. He leaves politics to others. A shy, untraveled man with a pinched face and faint mustache, a delicate porcelain figurine who goes about in green-tinted glasses, Tibetan cap and a golden bakkhu (robe), the Maharajah paints Sikkim's misty peaks and glaciers in a surprisingly abstract style. Recently he had a "vision" of the Abominable Snowman, put him on canvas as a skinny, jet-black creature with a red face, carrying a naked pink lady across the peaks...
...Only in America, Golden (1) 2. Aku-Aku, Heyerdahl (2) 3. Wedemeyer Reports! (3) 4. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery ( 4 ) 5. Beloved Infidel, Graham and Frank (5) 6. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (9) 7. The Proud Possessors, Saarinen 8. On My Own, Roosevelt 9. Brave New World Revisited, Huxley (8) 10. Chicago: A Pictorial History, Kogan and Wendt...