Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None in the train were heroes to themselves, or to each other. But all knew what everyone had done. The marines pointed out Sergeant Al Goguen, onetime cab driver, holder of the Silver Star, unofficially credited with killing 700 Japs on two successive nights. But Al said: "Everybody tries to snow the folks. I had two machine guns, and I grabbed the guns a couple of times when my gunner got shot, until the assistant gunner came up. But that was my job. . . . Those figures? God, I don't know how many Japs we got. Everybody tries to snow...
...rugged collective farmer is a communist pawn. The aproned worker is a communist king. Last week this chess set and over 30 others went on exhibition at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Many of the pieces, some dating from the 9th Century, were exquisite miniature sculptures in ivory, silver, fine woods. Most of the Metropolitan's chess show was lent by Chess Collector Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, co-author of Chessmen...
...million." The buyer was Lever Brothers Co. of Mass., subsidiary of the Netherlands Lever Brothers & Unilever, N.V., which is now controlled by the British company of the same name. They make Vimms (a vitamin product); Lifebuoy Shaving Cream; Lux, Swan, Fairy and Lifebuoy soaps; Rinso, Gold Dust and Silver Dust; Spry and Coro shortenings...
...nearly 40 years in the U.S., playing in Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, touring with the Barrere Little Symphony, and teaching a whole generation of younger U.S. flutists. He affected an imperial beard, fawn-colored trousers, a Prince Albert and an assortment of exotic flutes made of silver, gold and platinum, valued as high as $3,000 apiece...
...Then Father Hoffmann got up. He walked calmly up there through the hail of machine-gun bullets, and in a little while he came back carrying the wounded man. He got his captain's bars and Silver Star for that. Three days before he stepped on the mine [this cost him his leg], he came back one morning, telling everyone that the German gunners were wild shots. One of their mortars, he asserted, had missed him by seven feet. That's the way he was, laughing, joking and kidding around, but really getting things done, too. He could march right...