Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week his blackened body was exhumed from its tomb in St. Peter's and the face covered with a silver mask replica of his features. The body was dressed in new papal vestments, then placed in a gold-leaf sarcophagus with a glass top for public view. As it was unveiled this week, at the height of the beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's archpriest, Cardinal Frederico Tedeschini, spoke for the first time the words of public veneration, to which only saints and blesseds are entitled...
Yale's newest buildings appear to be the oldest, for their antiquity was planned in advance and custom-made. Upperclassmen eat in baronial halls, may sit under imposing chandeliers or by an imported Burgundian fireplace, use silver sugar bowls. Yale's Divinity School looks as if it might have been moved up from Williamsburg; the university library looks like a cathedral ("Must I genuflect?" a bemused visitor once exclaimed); its main power plant is clothed in stone to look like a Gothic tower...
...43rd, a National Guard outfit from Connecticut, Vermont and Rhode Island, had left New England last September filled with high patriotism and thoughts of past glory (four Presidential Unit Citations, 987 Silver Stars, 75 D.S.C.s and two Congressional Medals of Honor in the Pacific area in World War II). On paper, it figured to be a good division. More than 70% of its officers had combat experience, 74% of the men were high-school graduates, 18.4% had attended college, 90% of the division was under...
...like many National Guard generals, been active in his home state's politics; he served four terms in the state legislature. A veteran of World War I and a brigadier general with the 24th Infantry Division in World War II, he had an excellent combat record, won four Silver Stars for gallantry in action. In 1946, after demobilization, he was made commander of the 43rd when it was returned to National Guard status. A few months later, regarded as a top National Guard officer, he got full-time duty as chief of the National Guard Bureau in Washington. Taking...
...dawn one May day Selenger and Lieut. Colonel Leland P. Molland, 32, of Fargo, N.Dak. volunteered to fly a weather reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. A World War II ace, Molland himself had flown 167 missions in Europe, bagged eleven German planes, collected a Silver Star, two Distinguished Flying Crosses and 29 Air Medals...