Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Golden Gun, Fleming...
Mark Johnson's leap of 22 ft. 6 in. in the broad jump and Terry Golden's time of 0:05.5 in the hurdles were nothing spectacular. But they won. And that is something the jumpers and hurdles have been unable to do all season in the two events...
...Golden Fleece. Yet, as it has done everywhere else, the G.I.'s heart inevitably goes out to war's forlorn victims. Marvels a Viet Nam veteran in the Pentagon: "Imagine a really gung-ho West
...Operation Golden Fleece last fall, he deployed 10,000 marines throughout northern paddyfields to give Viet Nam peasants the most valuable present of all-security to harvest and sell their crops without interference. One result was that the Viet Cong had to boost their 10% "rice tax" on farmers to 60% in unprotected areas, with no rise in their popularity rating. More often, the G.I.'s effort is spontaneous. At Phu Bai, marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies...
...ruble. Nothing daunted, Osip moved in with the Acmeists, a stubborn little literary sect centered in St. Petersburg and set up in opposition to the symbolists, who at that time dominated Russian poetry. In fact, Mandelstam's esthetic ideal was Athenian, and like the temples of the Golden Age, his poems were constructed with stately simplicity and monumental strength. Says Isaiah Berlin: "Mandelstam's poetry possessed a purity and perfection of form never again attained in Russia." His stories, on the other hand, were a wild ebullition of image and idea, and his essays an icefall of glittering...