Word: silver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed at a good job, felt that his whole life was destroyed. While trying to work up the courage to jump, he walked on. Suddenly, he saw the words SALVATION ARMY painted over a doorway. Two minutes later he was sitting in a tiny office talking to a silver-haired Salvation Army brigadier named Herbert Langdon, who seemed to understand just how he felt. They talked for three hours, and that night the would-be suicide slept there. Last week, with a new job in another city, he celebrated the first anniversary of his reclaimed life, playing the euphonium...
...papers. I give them to the King, my father, and papa makes his choice. Very simple, isn't it?" The people found it so, and in the end they asked papa to make Sihanouk Premier. Next morning they picked up their straw bedding from the floor of the Silver Pagoda and trudged homeward...
Died. James Dean, 24, most promising young cinemactor of 1955 (East of Eden) ; in a collision as he sped along a darkening highway in his silver Porsche Spyder sports car to enter a road race one week after he completed work in a new film, Giant; near Paso Robles, Calif...
Home Run in Heaven. He was the nation's favorite orator, at the peak of his decibels more popular even than silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Billy put up tabernacles wherever he went-basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages over the tent-it was safer, the used lumber could be sold, and the noise of hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high...
...practice field beside the Stadium, behind a board fence, a battery of security-minded managers, and the silver shields of the University's Finest, varsity football coach Lloyd Jordan manipulates a group of returning letterman and H.A.A. farm system products toward what he hopes will be a return to Crimson ascendany over UMass...