Word: nugget
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...only a passion for horses but also a consuming belief that they are gods. Thus to relieve the boy of his guilty torment will simultaneously rob him of his deity. What price normality? At the end of Act 1, Alan is riding his favorite steed, Nugget (Everett McGill), in an orgiastic frenzy that could be defined as a sexual climax or as "union with God," depending on the way one chooses to look...
...Behind her followed her only attendants: Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, 9, daughter of Princess Margaret, and Anne's brother Prince Edward, also 9. She promised "to love, cherish and to obey." The groom slipped onto her finger a wedding band that had been made from a nugget of Welsh gold from which had come wedding rings for the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret...
...have been the most neatly buried nugget in all that John Dean said. In one brief paragraph of his 245-page testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities last week, Dean dropped an obscure reference to a client of Super-lawyer F. Lee Bailey's who "had an enormous amount of gold" to dispose of. As Dean told the story, the gold had come up during a luncheon conversation he had on March 22 with John Mitchell. What was Bailey up to, and how was Mitchell involved? The story behind Dean's fleeting remark lies...
...decorative wall carpet, a wristwatch, three bottles of liquor, a marble-headed golf putter, tennis rackets, fishing gear or hunting outfits, a box of King Edward Imperial cigars, and a real goose egg decorated with gold-leaf filigree and imitation pearls. The Governors' wives received pendants dangling a nugget of Georgia gold...
...Ohio, and Enco stations elsewhere. But this was no way to build strong national-brand consciousness. In their search for a new name, Esso executives worked in cloak-and-dagger secrecy. To ensure security, they typed their own letters and memos. The project even had a code name: Operation Nugget...