Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from its kill. If struck by iron or steel, the skin on the forehead of a true werewolf splits and the naked man pops out. If the beast is freezing cold, however, it is invulnerable to everything but balls of elder pith or bullets made of inherited silver...
...fought the Japanese over the mountain trails in one of the war's toughest campaigns. Once 46 Kachins held a pass against 470 Japs, and killed 22; another time eleven Kachins held a ridge against 100 Japs. Now the admiring womenfolk, garbed in silver bracelets, colored turbans, hand-woven jackets and lungis (bright-hued skirts), watched in fascinated silence while their warriors sang native chants and American hymns, danced and feasted in honor of many victories...
...pallid scholar is Professor J. (for James) Frank Dobie. In his years as head of the University of Texas English Department, the silver-haired, granite-faced, panther-hunting professor has spent about as much time in the shade of ranchers' chuck wagons in Texas, swapping yarns of gold strikes and bad men and vanishing longhorns, as he has in the university library. "Somehow ' or other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado...
...early," swapping countryside legend and philosophy. There he would find at a corner table cronies like Horner, who ran away to sea at the age of 13, inveighing bitterly against politicians, against women "because they spend their lives making men think that unessential things, like furniture, napkins, sheets and silver plate, are essential," or "the blasted superficiality and bogus pretence of education." There were also the medico from a High land regiment with his Cornish remedy for colds ("Hang a boot over foot of bed, go to bed, drink whiskey till you see two boots, go to sleep...
...possible ma chineries, a being responsible to the best care." Owen's partners watched his experiments patiently, but bathtubs, school rooms, shorter hours, little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented their junior partner with a silver salver in recognition of an undeniable increase in dividends "and suggested that he give up his many charities." Even his "dearest Caroline," a devout Calvinist, began to wish ardently that her Robert would walk closer to "the straight and narrow way of God." Prairie Paradise. When, after discouraging years in England...