Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gold there is or ever was Beneath the moon could buy no mite of rest For any one of these exhausted souls...
...Defense Department, in an effort to stem the outflow of gold from this country, has cancelled all cruises to foreign ports by members of the Naval ROTC. About 20 Harvard undergraduates - and scores of other students at the Naval Academy and in 51 other college NROTC programs - will be affected by the directive...
...would claim," said the Queen from her cherry-pink and gold armchair at the head of the flower-festooned hall, "that Parliament has maintained an unblemished record in its evolution." Nonetheless, Elizabeth pointed out, "its importance to us today is that it stumbled upon and gave expression to ideas and principles which have been recognized and maintained with growing conviction ever since." All the same, the mother of parliaments has brought forth some odd offspring. Among the 21 Commonwealth ministers present, nearly a third came from countries such as Tanzania, Ghana and Malawi, where democracy is about as real...
...1880s, the Vanderbilts, Astors and Oelrichses, with gold-plated silverware and shiploads of newly immigrated servants, invaded the quiet Rhode Island village of Newport, threw up enormous 50-room houses that rivaled European chateaux in size if not in taste. As more nouveaux riches arrived, Bailey's Beach became the playground for the new millionaires, private docks gave shelter to large yachts during the summer, and ladies sipped champagne under parasols while watching their white-flanneled husbands play tennis on grass courts...
...legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession of U.S. Presidents, gold-plated Texans, royal personages of varying distinction, business tycoons, theatrical celebrities and battalions of generals and retired generals. Actually, though it maintains an agreeably old-fashioned air of opulence which approaches that of the best lodges in Switzerland and Scandinavia, the Broadmoor is not strictly a mountain resort...