Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Afghanistan still looks much as it must have centuries ago. Camel caravans still wind below mud-walled villages perched for safety on hilltops. In the boulder-strewn valleys, leathery men in loose pantaloons guard their flocks with homemade rifles. Most Afghan women, gypsy-eyed and adorned with necklaces of silver coins, still hide their faces when a stranger appears. But in the windswept capital city of Kabul last week, TIME Correspondent Donald Connery found evidences on every side of Afghanistan's awakening-an awakening that is creating a fresh danger spot for the West. His report...
While Surgeon Simonetta massaged the heart, Jacobs ripped the cord from an electric fan in the operating room, ordered a silver-plated spoon from a room where the nurses took their coffee breaks. "I bared the wires," he said, "and wrapped one around the spoon and placed it against the heart. I wrapped the other around a retractor and placed it against the shoulder. A third fellow plugged the wire in.'' After four jolts of current, the fluttering heart was calm; 15 minutes after its own last beat, normal pumping was resumed...
...threatened to make a corpse of any British officer who broke them down. None did. While the British themselves were spending ?250,000 a year to guard Napoleon, Lowe was ordered to cut Bonaparte's household from ?18,000 to ?8,000. Napoleon promptly had his table silver pounded into a shapeless mass, weighed and sold openly in town. Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk...
Pritchard, 44, a World War II fighter pilot and commander of the 49th Bomber Wing in Korea (Silver Star, D.F.C., Air Medal with twelve oakleaf clusters), was assigned to Iceland only two months ago, and was actually out of the country when the latest blowup happened. Both State and Defense Departments agreed that he had done a good job on his short tour, that his personal competence was not in question, but that the overriding consideration was a happy Iceland, where U.S. troops and the somewhat diffident Icelanders could get along together. Moreover, with the Communists offering a challenge...
...determine formally whether Laos is a victim of foreign Communist aggression. There were no military bands, no spotless guard of honor, no protocol-wise assemblage of local diplomats. Instead, hundreds of lissome girls wearing flowing silk scarves and brilliant sarongs trimmed with gold appeared at the airport bearing silver bowls of flowers. It was the traditional Laotian "welcome in beauty," which requires that the wisest and most beautiful girls of a village greet an important stranger by kneeling along the path and offering him flowers...