Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Ike found a small penknife. He glanced at the older Widerbergs, got an approving nod, and gave it to Will. For Dawn the President inscribed a photograph. A small gold-cornered notebook made a fine souvenir for Greg, and, as an added prize, the President found a silver dollar for Lynda. "Oh, Momniie," she said, "I got a medal." As the Widerbergs were ushered out, Lynda held up the silver dollar, exclaimed to reporters, "Ain't I lucky...
...memory of the true champion lives on for generations after the mathematics of his achievement have been forgotten. His epitaph is not the thin type of the record book or the chestful of blackened silver trophies. It is legend. The Champ is inevitably bested. His record is broken. He dies. Or he retires in paunchy undefeatedness into the musty interior of a bar & grill, a half-interest in an oil well or the edible greenness of a southern pasture. Faster, stronger, younger, flashier pretenders rewrite the record books. But then they recede into the mists and, as before, memory clutches...
Boeing, which had worked at fever pitch to push its sleek silver, yellow and brown plane into the air ahead of schedule, was stunned. But company engineers and officials could remember a far more serious accident that failed to stop another Boeing fledgling: on a test flight in 1935, Boeing's prototype B-17 Flying Fortress, which became the greatest European-theater bomber of World War II, crashed and burned...
...last week, at the sold-out concert at Chicago's Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...
...interest in Taylor Oil & Gas, and with Sid Richardson, he controls Kirby Petroleum in Houston. Other interests: a restaurant in California, a club building in Denver, a small newspaper in Texas, a Tennessee motel, Easy Washing Machine of Syracuse, a curb-service grocery chain in Dallas, a Mexican silver factory, and a big chunk of Missouri Pacific bonds...