Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entrenched camp 175 miles inside enemy territory. He dared the enemy to come and get him and itched for a set-piece battle instead of Indo-China's usual, fruitless chases through the jungle. Navarre flew in light tanks and 155-mm. artillery; his officers installed their mess silver, their embroidered white tablecloths and their wine cellars, and (though a few high-placed officers were dubious from the beginning) they echoed Navarre's confidence. "They will have to take more casualties than we," said one French commander. "And in any case, they cannot...
...Diet convened to decide Yoshida's fate, members hurled angry insults across the chamber and demonstrators showered spectators and legislators with Yoshida-must-go leaflets. Through it all, Yoshida sat impassively, twirling his silver-headed cane. When the votes came...
...John D. Leland, 50, was named president of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., third biggest U.S. producer of lumber. A suave, silver-haired financial expert, Leland graduated from Harvard Business School in 1927, was a member of the Boston Stock Exchange until 1941, when he became assistant treasurer of the Brookline Trust Co. He joined Long-Bell in 1946 as assistant to the vice president. He replaces retiring President Julian M. White, who will remain active on the board...
...revue, reduced to slinging for her supper in a hotel scullery. The hero (Robert Cummings) is a famous songwriter-a fiction scarcely supported by the songs attributed to him-who is staying at the hotel. Doris is soon pleasantly crooning "I'm in love" to a silver-lame willow while mechanical stars dot the screen like light bulbs shining through an I.B.M. card; and instead of a slipper, her Prince Charming offers her a Broadway part...
...twenty-one-year old silver cup will be given to the Crimson crew or one of three eastern shells after they meet this afternoon on placid Lake Carnegie at Princeton. The race is the first of four regattas on the road for the varsity...