Word: golds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...African leader seemed to give his Nasser-stung hosts a timely, personal reassurance that they have not become the world's abominable rich uncle. He knew all there was to know about the evils of U.S. segregation because, as a young student just in from Africa's Gold Coast, he had waited tables and taught classes to pay his way through seven years (1935-42) at Pennsylvania's Negro Lincoln University-and later at the University of Pennsylvania. He knew Communism for its imaginary best when he studied Karl Marx's writings more carefully than most...
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. With 25 faculty members (six of whom belong to the National Academy of Sciences), exclusive Scripps has some 50 grad students and a fleet of blue-and-gold, ocean-exploring tugs...
...week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer's somewhat hesitant exterior still beats a buying heart of gold...
...wore a fool's cap crowned with tiny bells, and he strummed, of all things, a lyre--probably brass, but it looked gold. And he said...
...fund, other nations with strong economic positions, such as Canada and West Germany, will also have to follow suit. West Germany still has the original fund quota of $330 million, which was fixed before the country's astonishing industrial recovery. With $5.5 billion in accumulated foreign exchange and gold reserves, Bonn could well afford to double its quota in the fund. Since the German mark is as sound as the dollar, an increase in the German quota would greatly reduce pressure on the fund's U.S. dollars. The U.S. also wants a stronger fund, able to swing...