Word: karat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting for Hitler. My particular question at that moment concerns the miniature gold whistle Reed wears around his neck. He keeps tugging at it. "It's from Tiffany's," he replies. "Fourteen-karat. From Tiffany's. It's just a gift from a young lady. Nobody famous...
...seems disappointed, and I can't tell if it is because of the question I asked or because nobody famous had given him the 14-karat gold whistle from Tiffany's. So I ask him about his work habits. At once he is cheered...
...their decision to leave the official price intact while abandoning the gold pool, the seven nations pulled a 24-karat rug out from under the hoarders. As Zurich Banker Hans J. Baer put it: "The central banks are saying to the speculators: 'Take it to the dentist.' ! With the London gold market, the world's largest, closed until April 1, the demand for gold dropped abruptly last week in smaller markets elsewhere. In Zurich, gold bars that brought $43 per oz. at the start of the week sold for $39.25 by week's end. In Paris...
...cupola, its doorman in blue knee socks, red pants, buckled shoes and jaunty red cockade, its one-ton Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge-and a main floor men's room copied from Napoleon's campaign tent, with toilet paper in saddle bags and spigots of 18-karat gold. No two guest rooms are alike, and once a guest settles on a favorite, he is likely to insist on the same room year after year. Three suites are patterned after the chambers of Louis XIV, XV and XVI. But Sophia Loren favors No. 414, the so-called Royal...
...Claudia Cardinale, matters are urgent enough to enlist Lee Marvin as a former Rough Rider, Woody Strode as a cunning scout, Robert Ryan as a nail-hard ex-cavalryman, and Burt Lancaster as a passionate explosives expert with a yen for "100-proof whisky, 90-proof women and 14-karat gold...