Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guess that disposes of the Giants. I don't think we'll hear much more about them passing us this year." Retorted Giant Manager Leo Durocher, when he heard about it: "So the Dodgers have disposed of the Giants? Nuts to kindly old Burt. Just remind that silver-haired gentleman that we still have eight games to play with the Dodgers...
...sail. On Long Island Sound, cruising ground of thousands of summer sailors, a boy or girl of ten is old enough to race his own boat in "midget" class (under 15 years) events. Last week the best of the midgets raced for the championship of the Sound, and the silver-crusted Scovill Cup which is emblematic...
...them worked on the principle of spraying dry ice or silver iodide into fat, moisture-laden clouds, forcing them to disgorge their watery vapors which fall as rain. The man behind the principle was an energetic, 69-year-old scientist named Dr. Irving Langmuir...
...Named for Kansas City's Argentine section, a former gold and silver smelting center...
...morning last week, a long silver DC-6 with the blue and white markings of United Air Lines settled on the runway of the Air Force's Fairfield-Suisun Base, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Out came the passengers-18 women, 24 children, 4 soldiers-muscles stiff from the long 7,000-mile ride from Tokyo. In the airfield's noisy, sprawling, glass-walled building, the children found a haven under the protection of Operation Recess; volunteer nurses popped the smallest in cribs, kept the bigger ones busy with comic books. A few of the women belonged...