Word: golden
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...thereby losing their ability to constructively criticize policies they would oppose in other situations. His writing on that subject is explosive. He asserted in a bulletin published by his group in 1972 that "the majority of fellow Jews... worship the material State of Israel like our ancestors worshipped the Golden Calf and Baal...
...Lance had been technically in violation of this civil statute, since an overdraft is, in effect, a loan. Maryland Republican Charles Mathias Jr., mixing metaphors, termed the practice of letting Lance's campaign committee "write rubber checks that wouldn't bounce, like the goose that lays the golden...
...Newport is divine," cooed Elizabeth Taylor as she and Hubby John Warner joined the glamorous golden hordes thronging the scene of the America's Cup races. Ted Turner's Courageous looked like a winner as she hoisted her sails and breezed off to compete against the Australians. When ashore, Captain Ted kept a low profile, apart from throwing an impromptu party on Bannister's Wharf to read a special letter. "I am proud of you all and all Americans, Yankees and Southerners," wrote Jimmy Carter. "That was nice of him," conceded Turner...
...tabloids with copy, the wise with confidence, and the timid with smug self-satisfaction; often symbolizing an era to a degree aesthetes are unwilling to admit. Harry Crosby would have made a superlative court jester. If ever an artist appropriated the spirit of his era it was Crosby. This golden-haired nephew of J.P. Morgan spent a lifetime scrambling after insight and sensations others had long since experienced; obsessed with material possessions and the construction of elaborate mythologies. Yet his diaries ruthlessly expose foibles, and paint portraits in the starkest tones of a man and an era when flight -- physical...
Boston Reporter Johanna McGeary, who filed on the America's Cup races for our SPORT story written by Associate Editor Frederic Golden, had only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first...