Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearby African culture center. In the center of the square, cordoned off by police, stood a makeshift scaffold. A red circle had been painted in the middle of its collapsible wooden platform. A strong, rough rope hung down from the crossbar above. A row of open coffins, trimmed with gold and lined with white sheets, lay waiting on the ground below. Four enemies of Army Strongman Joseph Mobutu were about to be hanged, and to celebrate the occasion Mobutu had declared a holiday, and invited all of Leopoldville to attend...
...walked out of her Boston apartment with thirty dollars in her pocket and was never seen again. Is she dead? Is she living somewhere under a false identity? Or was she, like the heroine of The House Without Windows, lifted up by a great flock of green and gold and purple butterflies and borne into oblivion...
...obvious, perhaps overly simplistic excuse for a complex and chronic problem. Yet Europe's conservative bankers are sympathetic to the U.S.'s wartime payments plight. With the exception of the French, they have no current plans to cash in most of their greenbacks for U.S. gold, a move that would cause a run on the dollar. They keep pointing out, however, that the U.S. could and should do more to balance its books. Said Bundesbank President Karl Blessing last week: "The raising of the discount rate last December was a step in this direction. A tax increase would...
...situation created by this policy, Charles de Gaulle keeps taking potshots at the U.S. position. Uncounted hoards of U.S. dollars flow from banks in Viet Nam to the Banque de France, which promptly turns them in for U.S. gold. Since Jan. 1, the U.S.'s gold stock has dropped by $100 million to a 28-year low of $13.7 billion, while France's bullion supply has increased by about $150 million. As long as the U.S.'s deficits continue, all hopes for a sensible international monetary reform to take some pressure off the dollar are dead-which...
...with sheltered waterways on the front step and mountains in the backyard, is bursting with new indus try. Already, natives are dubbing it Pugetopolis. Said Washington Governor Daniel Evans last week: "In our state's history, the present expansion is second in significance only to that during the gold rush...