Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hambletonian at Goshen, N.Y., most famed trotting race of the year, is for three-year-old trotters only-and for only the best of them. Last week, for the silver anniversary of the race, two horses were outstanding in the 13-horse field. On the basis of his two-year-old championship record, E. J. Hayes's strapping brown colt, Lusty Song, had been made the winter book favorite. But at post time the crowd had taken a fancy to the Arden Homestead's Star's Pride...
...Copacabana's handsome square, thousands of Bolivian Indians, the men in grinning masks, the women adorned with sparkling silver belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...
...gaudy, eight-page comic book relating the saga of 38-year-old Sid McMath. There was McMath the poor boy, born in a dogtrot cabin on an Arkansas farm; McMath the amateur boxer, and honor student at the state university; Major McMath the Marine Corps hero, with the Silver Star for bravery on Bougainville; McMath the racket-busting prosecutor who cleaned up gambling in Hot Springs; McMath the family loving governor...
...noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
...Silver Lining. In Bexhill, England, Mrs. Elsie Hayward opened a letter,' found her lost ration books-minus the tea and candy coupons-and a religious tract exhorting the reader to give thanks for daily blessings...