Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue-and-red-capped, uniformed guards of the NKVD. Between the dock and the audience stood two guards, immobile with rifles grounded, leather cartridge cases on their belts, unbuttoned bayonets glinting like polished silver under the batteries of Klieg lights...
...paper, they seemed reasonable-but far too technical for the public to understand. The first, by Ohio's arch-conservative Robert Alphonso Taft, would guarantee to manufacturers and processors the same dollar margin over costs (i.e., profit) they received in 1941. The second, by Oklahoma's silver-haired Elmer Thomas, would allow processors of farm commodities to profit on virtually every single item instead of just on overall operations, as now prescribed by OPA's pricing policies...
Handsome, Massachusetts-born "Stu" Symington, Yaleman and husband of once-famed society chanteuse Eve Symington, would replace Iowa's silver-haired ex-Senator Guy M. Gillette, who had never wanted the job anyway...
Europe's most illustrious displaced person was replaced last week. In 814, Charlemagne, first great founder of a western bloc in Europe, was buried in the basilica he had built in Aachen's cathedral. The body of the 6-ft. 4-in. monarch reclined in a silver-gilt casket, knobby with precious stones...
Then, shaking toward the boats drops of holy water from a silver aspergillum, the Archbishop read the blessing: "Deign. 0 Lord, to hear our supplications and bless these ships . . . and all who sail therein. . . . Extend to them Thy right hand as Thou didst to Peter walking upon the sea, and send Thy holy angel from Heaven to protect and guard them from every danger...