Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion, Conservatives predicted a socialist saturnalia. Under a headline, "Shinwell celebrates-with 1,000 guests," London's Tory tabloid Daily Graphic told of plans for washing down coal nationalization with highballs served on silver salvers in a paneled, specially heated room. Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin-well issued an immediate denial, announced plans for a simple ceremony in the un-paneled, unheated Ministry headquarters, which cannot hold more than 50 people. A single toast would be proposed while Shinwell presented a leather-bound copy of the Coal Industry Nationalization Act to plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will...
...Alexander Pope's famous and munificently rewarded translation (1725) in heroic couplets (iambic pentameter) was a polished poem, but no more an equivalent to Homeric Greek (dactylic hexameter) than a silver-headed cane is to a flight of arrows...
...Account. In Calgary, Alberta, steam-shovel operator Harry Gallelli, excavating a basement, uncovered a cache of several hundred U.S. silver dollars and 50^ pieces, rushed happily to a bank, learned they were all counterfeit...
Andrews sees a silver lining in the sudden interest which the U.S. military are showing toward Alaska, whose eternally frozen soil is an ancient, well-stocked deepfreeze. "Mammoths preserved in cold storage for 100,000 years are not infrequently uncovered. Scientists should be behind [the bulldozers] to examine the frozen earth for fossils which will tell the story of our own lost history. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that the body of one of the earliest human migrants to Alaska may be discovered...
Died. Alfred Kornfeld, 26, TIME correspondent in Germany and at the Nurnberg trials, former U.S. Army master sergeant, who was thrice wounded, won the Silver Star in action; after a jeep accident while on his way from Berlin to Niirnberg...