Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DEWITT Fox, M.D. Silver Spring...
...slow burn type. But when he gets mad. he'll pop." Tom Mechling's slow burn began with the stories Margaret carried home evenings from her patronage job as a stenographer on Pat McCarran's Immigration subcommittee. Angered by the highhanded tactics of Nevada's silver-thatched Senator, Tom began to question his friends: Do you think people vote for politicians (i.e., hacks) just because they have no choice? Later, his friends realized that the question had a purpose: Mechling was making up his mind...
...slit open the baggage of the other passengers. The Kolis impersonated cops: descending on a village, they would arrest the village constable on some phony charge, then strip the village. Other groups became counterfeiters, moonshiners, muggers. Children learned crime at their mother's knee. Some tribes pressed a silver rupee, fastened to a piece of string, into a newborn child's throat, where it would form a pocket which, when the child grew up, provided a hiding place for stolen coins and jewels...
...steak cut from a live cow, but Author Winsor is not a writer who employs her pen as a grub hoe. What she investigates are not concealed roots but visible furnishings: "His body . . . had the ... apparent hardness of polished mahogany." "Her breasts [were] bare and the nipples speckled with silver flakes...
...Lovers consists of three novelettes. Each, in its own way, describes the impingement of polished mahogany upon silver flakes...