Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black. As the trumpeters blurted a brassy fanfare, Britain's Garter Principal King of Arms Sir George Bellew - flanked by the Earl Marshal, two more Kings of Arms, six Heralds and three heraldic Pursuivants, all dressed like himself in tabards and cockaded hats and bearing staffs of gold, silver and ebony - stepped forward and raised a huge parchment...
...Sandringham, the library of Windsor Castle and the art treasures of Buckingham Palace. The Queen owns 600 of the Thames River's 800 swans, all sturgeons and whales caught in home waters, the land around the perimeter of the islands between high and low tide, all gold and silver mines in Britain (there are none to speak of), all treasure trove in Britain, and the exclusive right to search for oil in the United Kingdom...
Pleas & Warnings. As he mounted the rostrum and waited for the jingle of the little long-handled silver bell which starts debate, 76-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer looked tired. For months he and the allies had been negotiating a "contract," a preliminary peace treaty, to replace the occupation. He was near the end of his bargaining, he said, and at the stage where he needed a parliamentary majority behind...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
...Fifteen workers in CCC's Dallas office took gifts from private companies ranging from "boxes of fruit and shrimp, raincoats, Stetson hats and Mexican belts with silver buckles to $100 gift certificates and trips to expensive dude ranches and fishing resorts...