Word: golden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden autumn of the 14th year after World War II, all Europe was humming with a new prosperity. In Britain, where voters had just emphatically endorsed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's claim that they never had been so well off, the government this week planned to improve their lot still further by abandoning, for all practical purposes, the $280 ceiling on the amount of sterling British tourists are allowed to carry abroad. On the Continent the boom was so solid that last week the foreign ministers of the Common Market met in Brussels to discuss moving forward from...
Attending a golden anniversary meeting of Old Settlers in the booming city of Tempe, Ariz. (pop. 16,900), Arizona's long-settled Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, 82, born in an Arizona hamlet once known as Hay den's Ferry (so dubbed after his father and now called Tempe), gave the youngsters in their '50s and his contemporaries some earthy advice: "Believe me, I don't take my work to bed with me. I always figured you couldn't solve any problems between the sheets...
...International tractor and roared into a 20-acre cornfield. The three heads on his $2,400 corn picker attacked the tall standing rows of corn. Long before Farmer Landers had made even one turn around the field, the trailer hitched to his tractor was overflowing with fat, golden ears. His expected yield: 90 bu. to the acre, v. less than 60 last year...
...Golden Fleecing (by Lorenzo Semple Jr.) bears one of those pun-propelled titles that proclaim a farcical text. And farcical Golden Fleecing is, without being farcical enough. Concerned with three U.S. Navy men in Venice who plot to win fortunes at roulette by using their ship's "top-secret" mechanical computer, it involves signals between harbor and hotel suite, their own admiral in the suite below, the admiral's inevitably winsome daughter, signalmen who pass out, couples who dive into canals, Venetian glass, Venetian gangsters, and phones that stop ringing only when doorbells start...
...despite a whole arsenal of props and an agreeable assemblage of players, topped by TV's Tom Poston, Golden Fleecing is into the second act before it explodes into laughter. Then it expires in the third. Playwright Semple cannot solve the author's great problem of getting his people into trouble while staying out of it himself. He is too laborious tying his yarn in knots, too predictable untying it. Amid Director Abe Burrows' sharp whipcracking, there is too much forced wisecracking; amid a great many antics, there is never quite enough...