Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reverence was also in short supply: the peeresses' school reported the theft of a silver ear picker used by the Emperor Komei and crested incense burners presented by the Empress Shoken...
...Archbishop had also made a social stir. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and full of dignity, berobed in the black garb and silver chain ofj his churchly office, he cut a figure unique among modern statesmen. He impressed London hostesses by his great appetite for oriental pilaff (his aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then...
Just a shade jealous of all the homecoming celebrations for returning generals, the Navy last week laid plans for a monster show of its own. On Oct. 2, silver-haired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz-who said bluntly last month that sea power won the war against Japan-will appear before the U.S. Congress. With him will come Fleet Admirals King and Leahy, Admirals Spruance, Halsey, Turner and Kinkaid, Marine General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Lieut. Generals Holland M. Smith and Roy S. Geiger-a total of 41 stars. And late in October the Navy will stage a full-dress...
Even the Ford Motor Co., which shut down its plants and laid off 50,000 workers rather than struggle with wildcat strikes, could see a silver lining. It had reconverted so fast and made so many cars that it might soon have had to set a price to get them off its hands. If it had, it would have laid itself wide-open to undercutting by all the other automakers. Now it could keep its plants closed while the rest caught up. It was a strategy which might appeal to the entire auto industry. If pressed hard enough, might...
...part of the cooperative health campaign of the U.S. and 18 Latin American countries, midwives are required to vow: "I swear in the name of God and my own conscience that I will never practice abortions . . . that I will always make use of the umbilical sterile dressing and of silver nitrate solution at one percent...