Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the U.S. returned to Philippine command June 30-after presenting it with $50 million worth of arms and equipment-would lead the big parade. On the ship-shaped platform, resolutely pointing to the future, General Douglas MacArthur, who had promised to return and did, would speak. Silver-haired Paul McNutt, the retiring U.S. High Commissioner and the first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippine Republic, would read the formal proclamation from President Truman which would transform the Commonwealth into a Republic...
Glass Jaw. In Vidalia, Ga., Mack Crawford, weaving his way out of the Silver Moon bar, took a poke at a big guy who was holding the door shut, smashed his fist and the door's full-length mirror...
...with the help of other Jews in Belfast and Dublin, Leo Scop, a silver-haired, Russian-born Belfast Jew, had wangled an abandoned farm site, set his first colonists to clearing it of overgrown sycamore and beech, built barns and kitchens, poultry runs and hutments...
...dyes and designs in his work bag, Bailey set up a laboratory-workshop in suburban Lima. Using workmen whom he and his blonde Peruvian artist-colleague Grace Escardo trained themselves, Bailey was soon producing a great variety of cleanly designed, finely wrought textiles, lacquer-work, silver, wooden utensils, even furniture...
...that Tom's arrest gave Cheyenne and Denver cattle barons a bad turn. They retained a batch of lawyers to defend him, appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, and when all else failed, sent him off to the Boulder Cemetery in a high-priced white-satin-and-silver coffin. Author Monaghan knows the Tom Horn country at first hand, has talked to dozens of oldtimers who saw Tom in the flesh, has been collecting Tom Horn material for 20 or 30 years. A number of other writers, including Struthers Burt and Gene Fowler, have had their say about...