Word: golden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle for the fourth Middlesex seat is a classic old incumbent versus young challenger battle, and as usual, the incumbent must be given a slight edge. But Graham, riding her city council visibility and solid support in key areas of the district, is well within reach of the golden dome...
Over Lhasa, the golden roof of the Potala Palace sparkled in the thin air. Once the living heart of Tibetan Buddhism, spiritual and temporal seat of the Dalai Lama, Potala is now a cultural relic. It remains an architectural wonder. Designed as fortress, labyrinth and spiritual sanctuary, Potala rises 13 stories high and stretches 460 yards along the dominating hillside. Across the front of the palace, in giant white letters on a black background, was a solemn epitaph: ETERNAL GLORY TO CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG, GREAT LEADER AND GREAT TEACHER...
SORRY U.S.A., WE STILL LOVE OUR PRINCE announced several placards and banners as Queen Juliana and her disgraced husband, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, rode in their 1898 golden coach to the opening of the Dutch Parliament. Just a month earlier Bernhard had ceased all official duties and resigned his post as armed forces Inspector General after a government investigation uncovered "extremely imprudent" links between the prince and the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Despite the gray civvies that replaced the favorite naval uniform he had relinquished...
...this group, so unprepared for the reality of their society, that Time magazine chose for a cover story in January, 1965, entitled "Today's Teenagers," describing them as representative of America's golden youth. They were wealthy, young and intelligent--they were the ones who were going to inherit Johnson's Great Society...
...without trying to figure out the answer to the puzzle. What did really happen to those wealthy adolescents that turned them into a massive, collective dropout, that took them off the technocratic track? Some suggestions leap into the mind: dependence upon doting parents, whose goal was to give their golden children everything they hadn't had themselves; disillusionment with the values of a system that forced them to worry about the draft after raising them to think that other people did the dirty work; realization that they couldn't meet the expectations of the adult population, expectations they had themselves...