Word: golden
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Your photo of a businessman patting the snout of a bronze bull statue in New York City [SPECIAL REPORT, Sept. 14] brought to mind the days of Moses, when the object of worship was a golden calf. Who said that things change? CARL KAHN Chicago...
...between small-and large-market teams and competition from other sports has eroded the supremacy of baseball in the national consciousness. Football, and sometimes basketball, finishes ahead of baseball in polls of sports popularity. Since the '50s--the era Ken Burns and Bob Costas would have us call the "Golden Age" of baseball--other sports have made inroads into the pool of athletes where baseball used to have first dibs...
Even with Yale's last-second goal, the spiritstill seemed to be with the Crimson who, despitebeing a man down for the last 46 minutes of thegame, consistently outhustled the Bulldogs. Thefirst overtime saw a golden opportunity for theCrimson, as Williams lofted a perfect cross to anopen Hutcherson, who lofted the ball over the Yalekeeper and watched it roll within inches of thegoal line before being knocked away by a Yaledefender...
...evidence of the Nazis' murderous intentions toward the Jews. In October 1938, a month before Kristallnacht, at a dinner at the residence of the American ambassador in Berlin, Hermann Goring surprised everyone by decorating Lindbergh--"by order of der Fuhrer"--with the Service Cross of the German Eagle, a golden cross with four small swastikas. Inexplicably, Lindbergh refused, then and later, to return the medal--as if to do so would be discourteous...
Immensely intelligent, full of charisma and riding a crest of economic prosperity, Bill Clinton has had a golden opportunity to fix this nation. And now it is gone...