Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian workmen last week completed a three-story, air-conditioned hotel in Alexandria. They raised some 12,000 flags over lampposts and public squares, built 200 triumphal arches, and draped buildings with hundreds of banners car rying slogans of Arab solidarity. As special beach cabins went up on the golden sands of the Mediterranean shore, other workmen dusted and polished furniture and chandeliers in the vast Muntazah Palace and tended 325 acres of gardens...
...Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the Academy of Sciences has a larger-than-life rattlesnake jaw with fangs, which snaps shut at the push of a button, and an instant earthquake showing the heaving innards of the earth. Oregon's imaginative Museum of Science and Industry in Portland offers a "micro-zoo" that, by magnifying a drop of water 200 times, reveals the teeming life in it. "We want to make a simple scientific statement the student will understand," says Executive Director Loren McKinley. "We don't go in for pinball exhibits...
...golden, all right. A sudden summer shower had turned the track at Chicago's Arlington Park slow and sloppy-but that did not bother him a bit. Neither did the fact that he had to concede up to 23 Ibs. to eleven of the best handicap horses in the Midwest. The big bay made a shambles of the $114,750 Washington Handicap two Saturdays ago. Leaping in front at the start, he stayed there all the way-fighting off four separate challenges, drawing out by two lengths at the wire. "A lot of horses found out they could catch...
...been the champions of the National Football League's Eastern Division. But now they look more like chumps-at least on TV. They lost to the Minnesota Vikings, 21-7, and Sherman insisted: "The defense looked good." Then they ran into the Green Bay Packers and Halfback Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, back from a year in Coventry for betting on games. Hornung passed for one touchdown, booted two field goals and four extra points, and the Packers trounced the Giants, 34-10. The Giant switchboard lit up with wailing calls from fans who had seen...
Polly (played by Shelley Winters) was born in 1900 in a White Russian ghetto. Her father, a tailor, decided to send his children one by one to "the golden land," and when Polly was twelve she arrived in America with everything she had in the world slung over her shoulder in a potato sack. At 16 she was working in a Brooklyn sweatshop. At 18 she was raped, or so she claimed. At 21 she became a madam by mistake...