Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew tense after the long monotony of their flight. The motors roared on steadily, but now their throbbing beat was swifter, and by the steady pressure in their ears the men knew they were going down. Ahead and below, the lakes that marked their targets shone like silver...
...venerable band that played for them consisted of long-silent musicians gathered from Louisiana rice paddies and the Pullman cars. Its leader, spare as a lath, was 63 -year-old, silver-haired Willie C. ("Bunk") Johnson, onetime teacher of Louis ("Satchelmouth") Armstrong, and the greatest jazz trumpeter of his not quite bygone day. When Bunk and his old friends rode out on the classic New Orleans stomps, the San Francisco crowd knew it was getting the fragrant, free style syncopation it had come...
Died. William Andrew Johnson, 87, onetime slave of President Andrew Johnson; in Knoxville. In 1937 he chatted with Franklin Roosevelt about the Emancipator's successor, received an FDR-initialed silver-headed cane to take back to his pastry kitchen...
...Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver stars. The rear was brought up by a swarm of lovable little Mugwumps, ringing cowbells and whirling clackers. The galleries were a mass of waving U.S. flags, a dozen bands were playing, and now, even above the roar, Senator Vandenberg could plainly make out the tune. It was: There...
...outside. To Engine-room Artificer Hen-rose, the presence of Italian dreadnoughts was merely "interesting, just as was the fact that Henry VIII had six wives." Hen-rose's eyes were, as usual, fixed on a test tube, searching for "the slightest trace of the white precipitate of silver chloride which would indicate that there was salt in the boiler water." Chief Petty Officer Cook had turned a valve, and "steam as hot as red-hot iron" had emerged from the ship's boilers at 400º and heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer...