Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom...
Many a war has been fought for silver, but World War II is the first in which silver has been used as a major weapon. Silver technology, long retarded by political price-boosting, has leaped ahead under wartime pressures...
...most notorious wide-open districts in the U.S., ranking with San Francisco's Barbary Coast. Wrote one observer: "I've often seen it on the old line with the girls late in the evening walking up the street, their stockings so weighted down with silver dollars that it was all they could do to navigate." Added another: "There were some sprightly-lookin' lasses down there. . . . But there was plenty of tough-lookin' blisters too. A man could have got hydrophobia from even lookin' at them...
...shirt and tie were also grey, the latter a silver grey cravat tied in a Windsor knot. The black spotted pattern of the tie harmonied perfectly with the black and grey of his suit...
...from jail, he touched many an Irish heart by telling how he perjured himself on the civil service exam in order to get a job for a destitute friend with a wife and four children. On the second occasion, he let Boston know that he was selling the family silver. Promptly John M. Sullivan, boss of Boston's Teamsters (A.F. of L.), announced that the union would arrange a giant testimonial dinner to pay off all the debts, public & private, of its great & good friend. The Boston papers told how Curley, rising to speak his thanks, was overcome...