Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lightning slashed the white peaks of the boiling thunderclouds below as a pair of silver-and-orange F8U Crusader jet fighters streaked smoothly down the Carolina coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore...
...Catholic University of America, where he specialized in ultrasonics. A solid, 6-ft. 190-pounder and father of four. Thaler is a topnotch tennis player, has several times won the state doubles championship. Thaler took his sudden fame calmly. Reporters looking for him at his suburban home in Silver Spring, Md. found he had ducked out to buy his six-year-old son a small green turtle as a replacement for a pet chameleon that had died...
...difficult; finding strippers who could also skate was next to impossible. The artistic integrity of the performance (if any) is saved by Leny Eversong, a Brazilian woman of indeterminate age but unavoidable size (5 ft. 5 in., 284 Ibs.). From somewhere between her strawberry blonde hair and her flashing silver gown, she produces a rich, round voice with a rhythmic finesse reminiscent of Mildred Bailey. All by herself she is worth the price of admission...
...Pontiac convertible pulled up to the studio gate one morning last week, the guard waved it in without a moment's hesitation. Philippine water-buffalo horns, 30 inches wide, arced away from the radiator; door handles, gearshift and fender ornaments were all pearl-handled Colt six-shooters, and silver-plated rifles were mounted on the trunk lid. Chromed horse heads studded the I dashboard, and the bucket seats were up holstered in the soft white leather of unborn calf. The chunky, grey-thatched driver was dressed to match. Inside the lot, he braked to a stop, grabbed an armful...
...lone-wolf gold prospector who roamed the Canadian North in search of his fortune and always narrowly missed it; of a heart attack; in Scarborough, Ont. On his way to register a claim to gold he discovered in northern Ontario in 1907, "Sourdough" was sidetracked by tales of a silver strike, learned to his sorrow that he had passed up a $500 million gold mine. After years of scouring Labrador (which has remembered him in the names of rivers, lakes and streets), he struck iron ore, but the depression prevented him from mining it and the Canadian Government reaped...