Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skipper won the Navy Cross, eight others Silver Stars. The Alchiba herself received a unit citation. Her casualties were only three. One was in the hold where a torpedo exploded...
Roger "Trigger" Sherman must have lost his wooden gun for we've missed all those dead Japs lie's been plugging round the Yard of late with his wooden 45 and silver ammunition...
...Hollywood's idea of what a nondescript preacher should wear for the wedding of a divorcee (the picture: Silver Dollar...
Other Peterson eye-gogglers : making a silver dollar leap from the cushion-top into a hat; putting the balls through a game of leapfrog all over the table; making a ball jump off the table, roll about on the floor, bounce back on the table. Peterson is the performer who has made the fabulous "impossible shot" possible. The cue ball and two object balls are jammed together in the corner jaw. A brilliantly executed force masse puts such heavy "English"* (spinning motion) on the cue ball that it clears a path, spins to the side rail, reverses back...
...Allen-why don't you?" Allen brazenly replied. He got his certificate, and as a temporary major he led a battalion of the goth Division into battle at St. Mihiel and Aincreville, won a citation and a Silver Star "for distinguished and exceptional gallantry," got a bullet through the jaw and mouth...