Word: jades
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...high, 3½ ft. wide), bare cross with a single inscribed rosette on a plain background, done in soft rose, clear white, and a dozen shades of cool green. What makes it unique and arresting is that it consists of 446 pieces of beautifully cut and polished jade...
...Jade, and the tooling of jade, became Kraft's specialty. He set up stoneworking shops for children's homes, wrote a book, Adventure in Jade, on his expeditions up & down the U.S. He even took his hobby to work. At sales' meetings Businessman Kraft would hand out jade lucky charms from his workshop, sandwich in a little pep talk. "Rub this between the palms of the hand until warm," he would say, "make a wish, then go out and work like hell...
Below the landing were another 13 steps. Then the stairway ended at a solid wall. Behind it was another wall with a stone box set in it, and in the box were a piece of ceramic work, a big pearl, a collection of shells and several pieces of jade. This religious bric-a-brac encouraged Archaeologist Ruz. It hinted that something of importance to long-dead Mayan priests was hidden in the heart of the pyramid...
Unfortunately, the show is far from being consistently good. The book by William Wiggin causes all the trouble. It is a sterile story about an expedition to Cambodia which is looking for a jade eye. There are a couple of men in the expedition and they are being chased by various women, some of whom are native to the country and most of whom are masquerading as somebody else. The Pudding was forced to wring every possible gag from this story; it was not an easy job, and the result frequently is dialogue like...
...come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted the great jade seal of supreme Tibetan authority on which is engraved the motto "Victory in All Directions...