Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chest and black hair to his shoulders, looked every bit the pirate that he was. In the winter of 1716-17 near Cuba, Bellamy seized the Whydah, an English slave galley named for a West African port. He turned it into a carrier for tons of silver and gold but $ never lived to enjoy his hoard. The Whydah broke up in a storm off Cape Cod, its crew drunk on pirated wine, its cargo lost, its very existence doubted...
...Gold attributed the popularity of comic books at Penn to their relative speed when compared to other forms of recreation. "You can escape from reality for the length of an average stay on the toilet," he said...
...Gold also said that "a lot of Wharton students buy them as investments" but that these are not true comic-book fans...
...most popular comic strips on campus, both officers agreed, is Swamp Thing, a Marvel Comics offering which according to Gold, features both "sophisticated suspense" and "prose at its finest...
Approximately 1 percent of Penn students read comic books, said Gold. He said that comics are popular because "good always wins over evil, and no one gets the girl...