Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that, beribboned (two D.S.M.s, two D.S.C.s, a Silver Star) Slim Jim Gavin marched out of the hearing room, leaving behind, instead of a disturbing picture of an Army where high officials barter for stars, a picture of a passionate partisan who played the game and lost...
...Algerian rebels were equally intent on proving that the Sahara's oil would never be secure so long as France refused Algeria independence. As the first shipment was being pumped aboard the silver tank cars at Touggourt, rebels blew up a section of the rail line to the coast, derailed 20 cars of a freight train in a psychological shock of their own. But the tracks were hastily repaired, the armed guard increased, and by week's end the first oil safely reached Philippeville for loading aboard a ship bound for France. In a few years, predicted...
...urge to get the news first works like sandpaper on the nerve ends of the press. The tendency of big news to be bad news conditions the newsman to look for the clouds behind the silver handout. The two characteristics often produce a healthy combination of alertness and skepticism...
...performances of the past weekend had many moments of purest comedy and tragedy. The pantomines, at their best, were like a liquid silver which filters through the fingers with a beauty that could be touched and felt, yet not held. For comedy there was "Walking Against the Wind," "Tug of War," and "The Tight Rope Walker." "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death" was justly accorded awe-filled silence by the capacity audiences in Sanders Theater...
...rumors floated about that her voice was going; for her return, she had chosen one of her outstanding roles, and one of the most challenging in the repertory. As Norma, the Druid priestess, Callas came before her audience looking strikingly handsome in flowing robes, her dark hair aglitter with silver leaves. Midway in the first act, when she launched into the opera's most famed aria, Casta Diva, the house was hushed in taut expectancy. All of the familiar intensity was there, and the first notes were luminously clear. But as the aria moved into the upper registers...