Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another celebration--this one a marriage--thirty gold-flecked trees filled with fruits and baked meats stood strough the nine day exercise in forced-draft obesity...
When Crews' father left the swamp to go home to Bacon County, Georgia, he took a little money and a gold watch, inscribed "To Ray Crew, Pioneer Builder of the Tamiami Trail." He left behind a testicle, lost to the raging case of gonorrhea he contracted during their brief and unsatisfactory coupling...
...dedication of the Kennedy School of Government--although Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neill were conspicuous by their absence. There was a flash of April anger, as protesters denounced the naming of the school's library after an industrialist who had made his fortune in the South African gold trade. Mark Smith, a black senior, rose to address the crowd on the issue, and he spoke with power and elegance. The crowd applauded and left, to don their tuxes and gowns for the formal ball that night. The politicians went back to their trade...
...classical concerto form, and scored his work modestly. But already, at the age of 18, he had mastered the delicate orchestration, the ethereal grace and the inimitable turn of phrase that one associates with his later and more famous works. Thus endowed, he turned everything he touched to gold; even his 'minor' works are illuminated with his genius...
...students started telling me I was crazy, that I had a great thing, and should run with it," is the way Kaplan explains his incredible business growth. "People kept telling me that there was a gold mine out there, but I resisted expanding because I was afraid that I couldn't maintain the quality associated with my name." Finally, high school guidance counselors across the country started calling Kaplan to complain that he was not being fair to students outside New York...