Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...naval aide, Ike picked one of the Navy's best young officers: Commander Edward L. Beach, 34. Ned Beach was a wartime submarine hero (Navy Cross, Silver Star, etc.), later wrote Submarine!, the liveliest and most authentic account of underseas combat to come out of World War II. He began his sub service aboard the renowned Trigger, which sank at least 27 Japanese ships, wound up the war with his own command. As postwar skipper of the Amberjack, he made himself a terror to carrier admirals during war games. His favorite trick was to sneak up on a carrier...
...political career on a showdown battle over fiscal policy, and shuffled Secretaries like poker cards until he got one who agreed with him. And so, embroiled in one vital question or another, the Treasury was at the heart of politics in subsequent administrations; Treasury & tariff, Treasury & greenbacks, Treasury & free silver, Treasury & the gold standard were hotly argued at the nation's dinner tables through the generations, and into the first months of the New Deal...
...monstrance, in the Roman Catholic Church, is a finely worked vessel, usually made of gold or silver, which contains the consecrated Host. This, Catholics believe, is the Real Presence of Christ. The monstrance of Protestantism, however, is the preaching of its ministers, and the faith of the Reformers was based on the assurance that "God met His people in His word." Using this comparison, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 76, longtime president of Union Theological Seminary and onetime (1943-44) Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., has written Communion Through Preaching (Scribner; $2.50), a short but striking book about the preaching...
...Colonel Aubrey Dewitt Smith, chief of the Plans & Operations Division (Logistics Section) of the U.S. Army in Japan, was destined for bigger things. An up & coming West Pointer (class of '30), decorated at Okinawa (Silver Star) and a Korean war veteran, his life was all Army...
...appointment is at once a compliment and a blow to Harvard," according to David E. Owen, professor of History. Owen added that "although the silver lining hunters may find sufficient consolation in knowing that German problems will be in able hands, this is the gravest kind of less from our parochial point of view...