Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Henri HonoréGiraud, his white uniform crinkled, stepped out of the giant C-54 transport at Washington's Bolling Field last week, his squinting eyes focused on a shimmering collection of silver stars and gold braid. Generals and admirals were there in profusion to greet him on his arrival from North Africa-but nary a striped pants diplomat or even a State Department functionary on routine protocol...
...quarters (but only for a fresh uniform) and started on the messages and orders of the second day. His only propitiatory gesture to the gods of war and luck had been a judicious rubbing of his seven pocket pieces-a collection of old coins which includes a cartwheel silver dollar, a British five-guinea piece and a French franc...
...immediate horizon is like a black cloud with a silver lining. There is a rough stretch ahead come Saturday morning and its exam, but a dance in the afternoon and a picnic Sunday should do much toward cheering us up. We have developed a great respect for the Navy's ability to "plot and plan" with an eye of our amusement as well as our education. Thus far we have more than broken eyes...
...wisely leaving it to well-manicured civilians to sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest crisis of all history. . . . No aggregation of the art of the future can fail to be profoundly altered by the record these...
...Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...