Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combat record of its famed 100th Infantry Battalion, found that the Japanese-American combat outfit had set a top mark for gallantry. Already cited as a unit by Lieut. General Mark Clark (TIME, July 31), the 100th's soldiers had also won nine Distinguished Service Crosses, 44 Silver Stars, 31 Bronze Stars, three Legion of Merit Medals...
When Coningham arrived in North Africa three years ago to fight Britain's air war in the desert, his hair was still dark, almost black. Now, at 49, it is silver grey. But he has never lost an atom of his bouncing confidence, overflowing energy, infectious good humor. While ground commanders replaced one another as their fortunes ebbed & flowed along the Mediterranean shores, Coningham stayed on as the R.A.F. chief in the field...
Millions of U.S. radio listeners know Doctor I. Q. as the man who every week gives away about 850 silver dollars and hundreds of Milky Way candy bars. As "the mental banker" of the Doctor I. Q. quiz program (NBC, Mon., 10:30 p.m., E.W.T.), he has become famous for his evangelical, house-afire delivery...
...portable microphones scattered through the house pick out contestants for the Doctor's questions. When he is ready, he cries for so-&-so "in the left balcony!" The assistant there cries back: "I have a lady [or gentleman], Doctor!" The Doctor then intones: "Fifteen [or more or less] silver dollars to that lady if she can tell me whether the period between early June and early September is known as salad days...
...consoling "Oh, I'm so sorry, but I think you'll find salad days are those of youthful inexperience. But a box of Milky Way candy bars [consolation prize] to that lady!" A correct answer stirs the Doctor to the joyful cry: "Pay that lady 15 silver dollars!" One night he innocently asked a man to tell him the principal use of cowhide, expecting "shoe leather" for an answer. Said the contestant: "To keep the cow from falling apart." The nameless hero took the audience's heart and a pocketful of silver dollars...