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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nightmarish Scenario. There were thin patches of silver, lining: i) Malan is fiercely antiCommunist, hates Soviet Russia even more than he hates Britain; 2) with a slim working majority in a time of world crisis, he may feel impelled, for a while at least, to go slow. But literate Britons in South Africa queasily remembered a book called When Smuts Goes-a lurid, Wellsian prophecy of South Africa's future-published last winter by Dr. Arthur M. Keppel-Jones, a wispy historian at the University of Witwatersrand. When Smuts Goes predicted a Nationalist accession to power, an oppressive rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: These Things Happen | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Inside Dopester Drew Pearson got a silver medal as Father of the Year (for his food-for-Europe campaign) from 1943's Father of the Year, Dwight Eisenhower. Pearson also got a terse tut for slipping into the ceremony an Eisenhower-for-President plug. The general's view: "I deplore it." In Washington, the Un-American Ac tivities Committee handed Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, chairman, a memento of the committee's tenth anniversary: ten red roses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...became fashionable in big-time tennis after World War I. Suzanne Lenglen and Big Bill Tilden set the style -and the pace. One day on the French Riviera, so the story goes, a hot-tempered Austrian almost outdid everybody when he won a tournament; openly sneering at the tiny silver trophy that was presented to him, he set it down in midcourt and squashed it flat with a roller. Last week, in Paris, tomboyish Patricia Canning Todd, No. 4 among U.S. women players, did her bit to keep the tradition alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Uncourtly Manners | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...winner: an Italian named Giuseppe Farina, an old hand at taking sharp turns, who spun over the 318 kilometers at an average 101.3 k.p.h. Giuseppe's take: 730,000 francs, two silver cups, a bunch of roses wrapped in cellophane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Noble Try | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Memorial Auditorium, 11,845 people waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice boomed excitedly: "Gorgeous George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Guaranteed Entertainment | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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