Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must to all Democratic presidential prospectors, the time had come for Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington to head west in quest of the golden nuggets-California's 76 delegate votes at the 1960 national convention. Winding up a six-day California trip last week, Symington was following the trail already blazed this year by Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. Indeed, so worn has the trail become that Symington stopped at most of the same political watering holes and camp sites...
PAKISTAN The Golden Boys...
...mortgages), a fuel-distribution company selling to farmers (who often use gas unstintingly because of a 2½-per-gallon rebate on federal taxes). But it is from his more direct agricultural interests that Ray Garvey and his big family (four children, 18 grandchildren) annually reap enough of the golden crop to stagger the imagination-and he does it without bending either the letter or the spirit of the nation's farm support laws...
Gagaku's dances unfold stories of childlike simplicity in a context of barbaric splendor: a Mongol wanders the forest seeking a golden snake, finds it coiled at his feet, crouches in his stiffly encrusted robes to eat it, performs an angular dance of joy; four dancers in court dress, with cherry blossoms in their headgear, unfold with caressing steps from a circle, suggesting the blossoms in the imperial garden opening under the May sun. Even without masks, the dancers' faces are as unwaveringly expressionless as carvings in jade. The body movements are slow, solemn, almost architectural, with...
...theme which Douglass Cater recorded as part of a 1946 address by Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older member of the partnership" as he styles himself, compared the nations of the West to Leonidas' troops at Thermopylae and suggested that they "comb their golden hair in the sunlight and prepare to die bravely." A little bit of this sort of Everett Dirksen brand eloquence goes an awfully long...