Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Olympic gold medal in men's skiing, and its girls have not been golden since Andrea Mead Lawrence swept the slopes in 1952. The last bobsled victory was in 1948; the one hockey triumph was in 1960. Only in figure skating has the U.S. regularly cut the ice. Since 1948, U.S. skaters have brought home no fewer than six gold, four silver, five bronze medals. This year's team, chosen at the national championship in Philadelphia last week, includes at least three medal contenders, plus the nation's single odds-on favorite at Grenoble...
...York Knickerbockers had their hearts set on one man: Cazzie Russell, the 6-ft. 5½-in. All America from Michigan. What's more, both teams had equal rights to him by virtue of their last-place tie in the National Basketball Association. So they flipped a $20 gold piece. The Knicks won Russell, and the Pistons settled for Syracuse's Dave Bing, 22, a college-ball hawk but a pretty small man at 6 ft. 3 in. to stand up against the giants in the N.B.A...
...European financial experts agreed that their countries must dip into their stores of gold and monetary reserves to spur economic growth. By doing so, the Europeans expect to help both themselves and other parts of the free world to resist rising unemployment and a slowdown in international trade, two deflationary forces unleashed by the U.S. and U.K. actions...
...Hennessy seems satisfied that slavery went out of business only when it ceased to be really good business. But in the end, he does not quite convince the reader or himself that the profit motive alone was responsible for the routes of guilt that can be traced from the Gold Coast of Africa in 1441 to the riot-ripped cities of America in the summer of 1967. Beyond the simple, gory melodrama of greed, a margin of evil in human affairs still remains visible but unaccounted...
...hair was gold and her eyes were blue...