Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such cruelty taught the Negroes, as they say now, that "the stick that beats the white dog will beat the black dog too." In the end, led by the rebel Duke of Marmelade, they revolted, and in 1820 Christophe, brought to bay, killed himself with a silver bullet-providing a theme, a century later, for Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones...
...others that are outstanding for their subtle realism. A hat and a wall-hanging made entirely of feathers brighten the display. There is a poncho with a checkerboard pattern, and many cloths so elaborately embroidered that the eye cannot be brought to unravel their designs. Rock crystal, jade, silver, ivory and turquoise jewelry conjure up court scenes of exotic splendor...
Just before the doors, closed on the big silver and red R.C.A.F. transport, the crowd gave three cheers and a tiger. The four propellers blew back a shower of powdery snow; the plane taxied out to position and roared down the runway. Next day St. Laurent was in London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul...
...Silvered Homes. All surface structures, of course, would have to be protected from the terrible heat and cold of the lunar day & night. They should be covered with some reflecting metal. Exterior domes might be of steel, plated with silver, or better yet, of glass cloth, sealed with plastic inside and sprayed with silver outside. Even if small, they would have to be anchored strongly, and the expansion caused by heat and cold would probably rock their anchor bolts loose...
Stately Buck Mulligan. Son of a Dublin physician, Oliver Gogarty finished his education at three universities-Oxford, and Dublin's Trinity College and Royal. He left Oxford a hero-the only undergraduate, he reports, who had ever drained at a draught the famed silver ale sconce of Worcester College (contents: "more than five pints"). Trinity College made a racing cyclist and physician of him, but the Royal gave him his chief claim to fame by bringing him in contact with an unknown student named James Joyce...