Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handed out silver dollars, White House match books and ballpoint pens to the three children of Democratic Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt, who came for their first look at the office their grandfather occupied for twelve years...
...will take the French mint five or six years to replace the country's coinage completely, and for a time the old banknotes will simply be issued overprinted in red with their new values, until new coins (including a silver 5-franc piece the size and approximate value of a silver dollar) can be turned out. But once again a thrifty Frenchman...
...green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through streets swarming with mosquitoes for the swearing-in of the 109 successful candidates in Nepal's first elections for M.P.s. More than half belong...
...miner stepped up to the local bar, slapped down a silver dollar, and warbled: "Set 'em up for everybody!" Although lovers of Italian opera might wince at the line (more traditionally rendered as "Whisky per tutti"), audiences in Colorado's Red Rocks Theater last week happily lapped it up. Occasion: a Colorado Centennial production of Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West, staged in the natural sandstone Red Rocks amphitheater with all the flamboyance of a wide-screen western...
Main problem facing the restorers was to find a substitute for the outer dome (the ornately decorated inner dome will remain in place). Their final answer was enough to make a sultan shudder: it is not gilt, or even silver wash, but a lightweight, gold-anodized aluminum shell (cost: $364,000). Too modern, cried some citizens; too ignoble, said others. "It will look like an ad for an orange drink." snapped one traditionalist. The builders pressed on with their work, hoping to have it finished this fall. Historians pointed out that the Caliph of Damascus had melted down...