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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Coloratura on Tiptoe | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Wherever a tourist goes in Washington, he usually finds that a fellow named McShain has been there before him. Though he lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: White House Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Radcliffe dormitory wins a silver loving cup for a song tonight when the Annex holds its annual singing contest on the steps of Cabet Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Assembles for Song Contest Tonight | 11/8/1949 | See Source »

...boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Optimist | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Three unidentified men attacked Kurt S. Levy 1G last night at 11:45 in Cambridge Common and robbed him of five dollars in cash, a gold watch and a gold and silver bracelet in the first Square robbery since last spring's observatory thefts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Men Attack Graduate Student | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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