Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student scofflaws, the Mississippi State concession represents a golden opportunity to challenge similar parking regulations that exist at other campuses. They may, however, be inhibited by the Pyrrhic outcome of the decision. Illegal parkers will henceforth be tried before local justices of the peace, whose minimum fine for tickets is $12, rather than the $2 previously imposed by university regulations...
...have the good-natured gaiety of survivors." Together they make up the generation of the middle years, of the flexible mind, the resilient spirit and the high heart. It has the assurance of having been tested and not found wanting. In its quenchless vitality, it drinks up the golden decades like nectar at the banquet table of life. It is invisible because it defies chronology. It measures age not by a date on a calendar but by a dance of the mind. Just prior to last week's marriage of Frank Sinatra, 50, to Mia Farrow...
...Boeing Co. is still based in Seattle, and last week the city carried on with a golden anniversary celebration for its leading corporate citizen. Among those present was Pan Am's Chairman Juan Trippe, 67, and it was he who perhaps put the Boeing Co. into its best historical perspective. Trippe recalled that as early as 1934 Boeing had drawn up plans for a four-engined bomber; the U.S. War Department turned it down as being too visionary. Boeing thereupon spent $275,000 of its own money to build the plane. During World War II, it became the famed...
...eyes of a day-old calf, Voznesensky stumbled onstage like a lost delivery boy. Yet as he stood before the microphone, he swelled as though a mighty wind had rushed into him. His eyes blazed, his arms flung wide, and out of his small body rolled a big dark golden tremolo that thundered in the theater like a Kyrie of medieval Kiev...
...forest maiden of Indian legend had tiny faun feet that left footprints in the form of lotus blossoms. A 10th century emperor of China, delighted by the tale, commanded one of his concubines to bind her feet in a faunlike configuration and dance among the petals of a giant golden lotus. The emperor's concubine, if Chinese tradition is correct, was the Judas deer who led millions of Chinese women down a thousand-year trail of torture. The cruel custom of footbinding spread rapidly from court to commons, and continued unabated until Sun Yat-sen's revolution...