Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain now had the answer. As far as U.S. Army men were concerned, she could bank on it. For years they had said "Watch Somervell," and the lean, easy Arkansan had always come through. He had come through so surprisingly that at 50 he was wearing the three silver stars of a lieutenant general. Still unruffled, still masking his occasional bursts of temper with lurid volleys of good-natured profanity, he bosses the biggest show in the U.S. armed forces. It is likely to become the biggest show in the whole U.S. war effort...
...home. A dive-bomber found her. Within 70 seconds the Kelly sank, Lord Louis and some of his men escaped. Standing on a life raft, he led his men in a cheer for the dying Kelly. Down with her went two of Lord Louis' prized possessions: a silver cigaret lighter from his cousin, the Duke of Windsor, and a photograph of the reigning King and Queen. Both the lighter and the picture were inscribed: "To Dear Dickie With Love...
Presbyterians. At Milwaukee shrewd, silver-tongued ex-Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of Pittsburgh caught Presbyterian pacifists off guard on the next to last day. In a silencingly eloquent speech he got the Assembly to declare that "the cause for which our nation is at war is just and righteous, and that our freedom, our culture and our historic faith are dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." This is the nearest a major church on either side of the lines has officially come to calling World War II a holy...
Ever since 1934, a few lively bars of the William Tell Overture and the wild, hyper-Western cry "Hi-Yo, Silver, away!" has announced that the Lone Ranger was riding again on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last month the Ranger was riding a new range. The Blue Network had successfully outbid MBS, has been awarded the program (7:30 p.m. E.W.T.) by Sponsor General Mills...
...more than 13,000,000 readers. Mutual decided to tilt high-minded Ryder against masked Ranger. They put Red on a Mutual hookup at the same hour. To the tune of The Dying Cowboy the Ryder thundered in on his horse, Thunder, finished in a dead heat against Silver, the Ranger...