Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They came right out and announced they were stopping their collection of silver amateur cups and going in for the long green of professional golf...
...Crafty, silver-tongued old Patrick ("Give me liberty") Henry wanted no part in the Randolph case. By 1793, he was in ill health and on the verge of retirement from his law practice. But when desperate Richard Randolph, accused with his sister-in-law of murdering her newborn baby, doubled the fee, Lawyer Henry could not resist. He fitted on his brown wig, and hurried over to Cumberland Courthouse to appear as chief counsel for the defense...
Under Howell's direction New York City's two silver iodide generators flooded the Catskill skies early Thursday morning. "They may have eked out a few extra hundredths of an inch--let's hope so," said N.Y.C. Weather Bureau chief Ernest J. Christie...
Weatherman Christie deprecated the role of Howell's silver iodide spray in the downpour by pointing out that light rain had started in the test area before the experiment began, and that the heaviest rainfall had been to the south--not to the north, where the chemical clouds had drifted...
...beside the Marqués, Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 28, who wore the red-and-cream uniform of the Order of "the Holy Sepulchre, Carmen said in a clear, ringing voice, "Si yo quiero" Following an old Spanish custom, the cardinal presented her with 13 pieces of silver (worth about $450), a gift of the bridegroom. Then the 800 guests moved on to a sumptuous banquet in the palace...