Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much going on in Passaic, N.J. To Mike, L's Tavern in Passaic looked like a more exciting place to welcome Christmas in than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar on his arm, gets bored-especially after a humdrum day on the job at a New Jersey rubber plant. Mike ordered still another drink...
...Christmas Eve he called Emlyn P. Evans, chairman of the Caernarvon Liberal Association, to his Criccieth home. There, amid the gold-&-silver mementos filling the room, the great little man with the flowing white mane and piercing blue eyes announced his decision. He was going to take his doctors' advice; he would not contest the next election. Caernarvon would have to find another candidate...
...Philippines, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur proved his resourcefulness anew. A Filipino silversmith hammered out a five-star collar emblem exactly up to specification, using Filipino, Dutch and Australian silver coins supplied by the General's aides...
Past the mouth of the Wabash, whose peaceful blue-green waters merged with the yellow Ohio, out on the Mississippi, with its streaming files of ducks and geese, the boat sailed on. "Red-yellow moon," wrote Irving, "silver star-calm, cobalt-green sky reflected in river . . . wide, treeless, prairie-trembling with heat-here not a tree or a shrub was to be seen -a view like that of the ocean . . . beautiful clear river, group of Indian nymphs half naked on banks...
Ever since World War II began, the warring nations have been looking for an adequate source of tantalum. It is a superhard, noncorrosive metal that ranks just under gold, platinum and silver in value and is used in radar, machine tools, surgery...