Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread a broad bank of dirty clouds of dust and moisture, merging upwards into the fireball to form the characteristic and by now famous mushroom cloud...
Clearing the Way. Long before Tito and his Junoesque wife arrived at the Bois de Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep...
This month Fireman's Fund took on a new kind of risk: rain insurance for vacationers. Policies covering 88 resort areas in 32 states and the District of Columbia were approved for sale last week in New York, Connecticut and Florida. The company soon expects to be selling silver linings to vacationers from coast to coast...
...indio-cowboys have a fantastic and savage leader in Captain Galdino Ferreira, a sort of jungle-boy Long John Silver, who can do without money, but not without violence. So the Cangaceiros have plenty of violence, most of it superfluous and therefore especially appealing. The good folk have a fairly hard time of it; in fact, they are almost invariably killed, or branded. And to heap indignity upon extinction, they are not even allowed the social graces of the Cangaceiros, who are tricked out in the fanciest rigs since Desiree (Napoleonic pampa hats and costume, bejeweled cartridge belts...
...dark dreary hours before dawn, sinister little men in midnight-blue prowl the streets, armed with silver shields and orange parking tickets. The midnight marauders have been working overtime in recent days as part of the University's drive against illegal student parking. The crackdown, unfortunately, seems to stem not so much from a desire to solve the parking problem as it does from the hope to appease the traditionally irate Cambridge Council...