Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't but wants to, with slinky Marlene Dietrich in the background, always ready with a knife or a hard word. As Cherry Malotte, proprietor of Nome's Great Northern saloon, she is back in her Destry Rides Again role −a Bad Girl with a nugget heart...
...Hopes. This week few Congressmen had had time to assay all the shimmering facets of Ickes' vast, visionary nugget. But to at least one of them it seemed just fine. Joe O'Mahoney has shouted for years for the development of the West, expense be damned. To him it means not merely more economic independence for the U.S., but industrialization for Wyoming and environs. Ickes threw in another shiner that appealed to monopoly-hating Joe: he suggested that all patents and processes affecting scarce metals, whether U.S.-owned or not, be made available to the Bureau of Mines...
Then the General, who during the short minute of the interview had sat on his chair "as if on tiptoe," sprang to his feet and with the brief explanation, "The troops are waiting," strode off, leaving Newsman Allen with his nugget...
...Eureka, Calif., Rudy Reidel paid $3.65 for a turkey, took it home, extracted a $4.86 gold nugget from its crop...
...nugget" of cinnabar & the four sacks which yielded a flask of "quick" were extremely unusual. Most of the men do well to make laborer's wages. Many do better occasionally. Sometimes they find such rich ore that to drill the highly volatile stuff is dangerous: the fumes. But again some miner will pick away for days in the all but airless devil's pocket & have hardly 50 pounds of rich ore to show...