Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jewelry firms were already digging themselves out. One of the first to get going was Adalbert Grosse, a necklace manufacturer. While his aged father scavenged for potatoes to feed the workmen, Adalbert rounded up 15 artisans to help rebuild his factory. They salvaged fragments of gold and silver buried in the rubble, bartered them for boards, bricks and concrete. Within a year the hardworking Grosses were back in business; their impressive turnover...
None of the acupuncturists had any doubts as to the efficacy of their gold and silver needles, with which they claim to restore the cosmic equilibrium between the forces of yang (positive) and yin (negative). When a man has an ache or pain, either yang or yin is getting out of hand. Sometimes a gentle jab with the gold (yang) or silver (yin) needle will do the trick; often it takes a bit of both. Testimony from Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility...
Order of the Dragon. A golfer who wants to break par should have gold needles in the leg, chest, shoulder and cheek, and above the left eye, said Dr. de la Füye, and silver needles in the knee and belly. He also had prescriptions for swimmers, bicyclists and concert pianists...
...Silver Cord. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Peter Hoffman told the judge in a divorce suit against a fourth husband that she used to call her mother every half-hour when she went out, because "Mother always wanted to know that I was quite all right...
Breaks, good hitting, and alert team play combined yesterday to give the Drumbeats Kickline an upset 8 to 5 1/2 softball victory over Schneider's Silver Cornet Band before 250 fans on the Radclige Quadrangle...