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Word: golds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyes drifted over to the band where they suddenly riveted on a dark-haired beauty, delicately holding a silver flute. Under her band jacket, I could see her incredibly expensive cashmere sweater and silk blouse. Pure gold rings embellished her fingers. Diamonds hung from her ears...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Winter Is A-Comin' In And Fall Is A-Going | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...pictures of luxury items they wish they had. In a drill intended to build a proper sense of superiority, trainees pair off and mutter to one another: "You're weak, you're weak, you're noodle weak." At graduation time, each trainee is showered with gold sprinkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Chewing for Dollars | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Prosperity Training is the brainchild of Leo Sunshine, 28, a blond, muscular former jewelry dealer who legally changed his name from Brian Murphy. "Abundance is a natural state," declares Sunshine, who, with profits from his Oakland jewelry business, invested in gold and silver and says he is already rich enough to live off his investments. "I want to bring the fundamentals of prosperity to those who want to clear out their self-limiting attitudes and conditioning." As a teaching aid, he holds up-and argues with-a hand puppet he calls El Protecto, which is supposed to represent a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Chewing for Dollars | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...turnstile, gained 1,522 yards in the first ten games, and is a strong candidate to win the Heisman Trophy. To take advantage of Campbell's brute (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lb.) strength and the sizzling speed of Wide Receiver Johnny ("Lam") Jones-a 1976 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 400-meter relay and, according to Akers, "the fastest football player in the world"-the new coach substituted a big-play, I-formation offense for the Royal Wishbone. When the offense bogs down, there is the estimable leg of Kicker Russell Erxleben to put three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Longhorns of Plenty | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...intense terms, not merely to survive as an emotional cripple on Thorazine crutches. "Life screams in the head of every artist with his typewriter or his pen, so let it," she writes to a fellow poet undergoing psychiatric treatment. "Write it all down ... anything you write now will be gold later so mine it and don't make the God-damned baskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living with the Excitable Gift | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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