Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone and pronunciation, 3) rhythm and "dynamism," and 4) the purity of their singing as a whole. After two days and two nights of it, the singers stopped and awaited the verdict on their work. Ears ringing, the judges declined to choose a winner. Instead, they gave out little silver buttons classifying the wearer as first class (awarded to 95 of the soloists), good (85), or fair (22). A handful of performers, all of them city dwellers who had taken up yodeling in urban yodel clubs, were judged to have too "cultivated" a style. They drew the crushing verdict "insufficient...
...SILVER CHALICE (533pp.)-Thomas B. Costain-Doubleday...
...with the courts of Kublai Khan and medieval France, but made Costain himself the contemporary king of historical romance. To the fans who have bought nearly 5,000,000 copies of his eight books, King Costain can do no wrong, but the sad truth about his latest novel, The Silver Chalice, is that it rarely swashes and regularly buckles...
...Chinese medical professions, the one that has aroused great curiosity is acupuncture. However crude and primitive it may seem, it is still widely administered and resorted to by many an ailing person. Not infrequently, cases of heart attack, hypertension, rheumatism, etc., are reported being healed. The gold and silver needles the acupuncturists used range from 1/12s" to 1/16" in diameter, 1/2" to 4" in length; and round, elliptical and triangular in cross section . . . With the aroused interest and further research, maybe some day in the near future we will hear good news of applying this ancient art to cancer, leprosy...
...mining towns of Boulder (pop. 1,017) and Basin (pop. 250). From far & near came hundreds of bent, gnarled and crippled men & women, mostly victims of some variety of arthritis, all pathetically seeking a magical cure. Many thought they were benefited. Undoubtedly benefited were the owners of two abandoned silver mines, hotel and motel keepers, beanery proprietors and taxi drivers. Boulder and Basin had not seen the like since the bonanza days of the 1890s...