Word: luster
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...though, such houses as Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Marubeni have lost some of their heroic luster under a rain of charges that they have fueled Japanese inflation by engaging in widespread land and commodity speculation. A government study released this month accuses the six biggest trading houses of spending more than $2.5 billion in the past 18 months to buy up and hoard scarce supplies of land and such commodities as rice, wool, silk and soybeans. Prices of all these things have risen, and though the trading houses deny the charges, consumer tempers have gone up, too. Recently, carpenters who were...
...victory came in the golf team's first Ivy League match of the season and first match ever on the Concord course. The win put some of the luster back into pre-season predictions of a Harvard powerhouse after those predictions had been badly tarnished by last week's double loss to Navy and Penn State...
...technicians, who were considerably aided in their task by the existence of a plaster cast of the Pietà that had been made 30 years ago. Using a sort of plastic surgery, they restored the shattered nose with a mixture of marble dust and special resins that duplicate the luster of the original stone...
...this the mediocre 5-4 advantage that Harvard held after the first round, and the Crimson's final point spread loses a lot of its luster. Crimson fans were still uneasy going into Round Three, as MIT, a vastly improved team according to Crimson coach Edo Marion, remained in striking distance. Harvard held a shaky 11-7 advantage after two periods. But Marion's squad finally got it together in the last stanza taking seven out of nine bouts to ice the triumph...
...instant-a strong presidency is necessary. But not a presidency made strong with the usurped powers of an other branch. As a former Senator and Congressman, it seems strange that Nixon does not fully appreciate this. The shape in which Congress emerges from its crisis, whether regaining its lost luster or continuing to recede, to function as a kind of windy Washington side show, may be determined by what the public demands of it. Ultimately, the nation gets the kind of Congress it deserves. As Charles Jones observes...