Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silver-haired, mountainous (6 ft. 3 in.) Mr. Jones turned the cold greenish eyes of his poker face to his enemies, warded off unlikely questions with a "Huh?" and heard only what he wanted to hear through his good right ear. Said he: "Of course we look out for protection of the Government. That's our job. We see that the contracts protect the United States...
Thus the FBI caught up with the wiry, white-haired leader of the Silver Shirts, who once boasted that he was "the first to come out openly and unabashedly for the policies of Adolf Hitler." Sentenced to prison three months ago for violating North Carolina's blue-sky laws governing sales of securities (TIME, Feb. 2), Führer Pelley was out under $10,700 bail, waiting an appeal...
...silver platters were sweets and cookies. I ate Turkish cookies, a delicacy I am very fond of. My friend ordered great goblets full of champagne, into which he put shots of cognac to make it more lively. Sweets and cookies...
...Washington, fluttery, silver-haired Mrs. Casey patted her husband's hand and said: "The whole thing makes me sick...
Between peaceful 1938 and war-cursed 1941, South America's ship movements had dropped from an estimated 150 million to 105 million tons, exports from 48 to 37 million, imports from 32 to 21 million tons. Small comfort was the silver lining: a growth of Latin-American merchant tonnage from 1938's 1,400,000 to some 2,000,000. That was good, but that was not enough. Venezuela's seizure last week of six Axis vessels was small salvage...