Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver-topped Cliff Woodrum, for 23 years one of the ablest of House members, was bound for a reported $50,000-a-year job as president of the American Plant Food Council. But he wanted a last word before he left: "I have seen men come to this body in the heyday of hopeful youth, and stay under the blistering spotlight of public service until those once raven locks were frosted by the passing of many winters, until that agile step had been slowed and that eagle eye dimmed...
...been the victim of phenomenally bad luck, both in & out of court. Wearer of three rows of ribbons, including a Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomons, a topnotch officer (according to Admiral Raymond A. Spruance), handsome, 47-year-old McVay had had his ship-and perhaps his career-shot out from under him 16 days before...
Serious discrepancies had already appeared in Japanese financial and industrial reports to General MacArthur's headquarters. Example: silver bars. When U.S. officers found an unreported hoard of silver concealed under a pile of steel scrap in a factory, the Japanese explained that they had not meant to falsify the questionnaire on precious metals; they thought the military government had asked them to report on stocks of quicksilver...
Diana Roosevelt, 18, Eleanor's niece and a George Washington U. freshman, failed to keep her feet in the stirrups at a horse show in Silver Springs, Md. Results: her own mount threw her, another kicked her, fractured her skull, broke her jaw. Hospital report: "Doing well...
...coming National City, took the view that that sort of thing went out with extraterritoriality. It may be that this attitude has given Americans an inside track on dealing with Chinese-time will tell. Anyhow, when I visited several banks this morning I noticed that they had been given silver plaques by the Ministry of Finance to commemorate the great day. At the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank they told me that the Chinese characters on their plaque meant something like congratulations on reopening...