Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before it is fitted on one of the presses, is several steps removed from the linotype. To produce this plate a thin plastic mold is made from the flat page forms, which hold the proofread lines of type ejected by the linotype. The mold is then sprayed with a silver solution, given an electrolysis bath, copper-plated and nickel-plated. That leaves a thin shell of printing surface, which must be backed up and strengthened for the printing press. Hot, molten metal is poured into the shell, which is then rolled into a curved plate and cooled. The rough edges...
Another 25 million Americans were, or would be, crossing to Canada for the fishing, the scenery and the $1.10 dollar; thousands more, mostly Texans and Californians, were heading down Mexico's modern, gas-station-studded highways for the Old-World atmosphere, the bullfights, the silver jewelry and the cheap peso, and a healthy minority from the East were bound for Bermuda's pink sands or for the West Indies, with its palm trees and invigorating cheap...
...hearers that he had twice before "retired" from public office like this. Dewey and Republican leaders had already agreed on whom they wanted as Tom Dewey's successor in Albany: ruddy-cheeked, back-slapping 74-year-old Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, onetime jockey, Presbyterian minister, lawyer and silver-tongued speaker on the Chautauqua circuit. In case any Democrats wanted to make something of Hanley's age, Dewey said pointedly, let them remember that their own Senator, Herbert Lehman, up for reelection, was 72. Dewey's ten-word withdrawal shocked...
...cluster of pavilions beside a Venetian lagoon, they had their best chance of finding it. There the Venice biennial, the world's oldest, biggest and best-known international art show, had assembled a record exhibition of 4,000 art works from a record 22 nations, to celebrate its silver anniversary...
Haarlem was not drowned. The little boy stayed at the dike all night, too cold even to whistle and attract the attention of passersby, until he was found in the morning and the hole was plugged. Thus, in Hans Brinker or, The Silver Skates (1865), Mary Mapes Dodge told the legend of the sluicer's son who became "The Hero of Haarlem." The practical Dutch pointed out that the story was not true and technically quite implausible. But Americans visiting The Netherlands invariably asked to see the place where the little boy had put his finger in the dike...