Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Starch & Gold. Thus began the carefully timed, almost agonizing round of greetings, luncheons, dinners, toasts, receptions, balls, meetings and tours for the royal couple. With scarcely enough time between official functions to change from one stylish dress to another (she never wore the same attire twice), Queen Elizabeth usually managed not to appear exhausted, foot-tired and hand-sore. And Washington, D.C., thrumming with true excitement, turned out with starched dickeys and flowing gowns to do her justice...
...decorated with vines, and the walls were lined with great banks of pink carnations. Greeting 93 big-name dinner guests, the Eisenhowers, with Elizabeth and Philip, led the formally dressed procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling, frozen Nesselrode cream with brandied sauce) the President of the U.S., wearing...
Cars for Motorcycles. German exports have grown so much faster than imports that the country's gold and foreign-exchange hoard tops $5.8 billion," more than double Britain's, and Germans have embarked on a foreign-aid program of their own ($12 million in 1957 for technical-assistance projects involving some 25 countries). This year the World Bank borrowed $100 million in the Frankfurt money market. German firms have sent $380 million abroad in direct capital investment−roughly a third to Europe, a third to Latin America, a tenth to the U.S. and 15% to Canada...
...ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious rite. It ended with...
Closing the gap of production is not only a huge task but an urgent one. From the first luncheon in the Fairmont's ornate Gold Room, speaker after speaker at the San Francisco conference traced the irresistible upsurge of world population and the revolution of rising expectations that has grown from its hunger for a better life (see The Population Explosion). Even for the massive reservoirs of entrepreneurial brains and money represented on Nob Hill, the immensity of the opportunity often paled beside the complexity of the challenge...