Word: golden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Golden Fees. Far from languishing, Harley Street is flourishing as never before. Its curbs are chronically jammed with double-parked cars both big and little-the big ones usually owned by the doctors, the little ones by their patients. Some Harley Streeters haul in as much as $150,000 a year from private fees, N.H.S. fees as hospital consultants, and government-paid "merit money" for doctors with special skills and experience. Most make...
...shows may not pack much fun, but they ooze prizes. Winners have carted away $14,000 cabin cruisers, a day's traffic tolls of the Golden Gate Bridge, a thoroughbred entered in the '59 Kentucky Derby. Home participation via postcard is so common that the U.S. post office probably hauls in more loot than the contestants. A quiz sampler...
...Archbishop of Salzburg raised his golden crosier, traced a great cross, murmured a blessing, then turned to the crowd and said: "It is done." As applause spattered across the courtyard in front of the Renaissance-baroque Salzburg Cathedral, one sturdy little man who was watching broke into a smile. For Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù, 49, the dedication one day last week of the 6,600-Ib. bronze doors for the cathedral ceremoniously closed the book on three years of intense, painstaking work...
...book jacket puts it solemnly: "Nobility and love may flower wherever the seeds are sown." What the book has to offer is the authenticity of setting and speech that recalls Nelson Algren's excursion into the same territory. Unfortunately, Author Motley has not written another Man With the Golden Arm-but only a sort of Man With the Wire-Recorder...
...Golden Yeggs. In Afferden, Holland, Willy Croonen kept finding his truck's tires deflated, stopped blaming the neighborhood children when he learned that a pair of geese liked to peck at the valves, cool themselves in the escaping...