Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clarkson pulled ahead midway through the second period. Fred Silver slapped a shot from the left side, and it deflected off Jack Levitt's stick for a score. Harvard netminder Bill Fitzsimmons had no chance on that...
Mulliken's exposure to army ways came early. A graduate of Culver Military Academy (and Dartmouth), he served as a combat mechanized-cavalry lieutenant in four of the five major European theater campaigns of World War II and won the Silver and Bronze Stars. He got his Silver Star in October 1944 when he was a 22-year-old second lieutenant with the U.S. 7th Armored Division then fighting in The Netherlands. He was leading a platoon in a unit that was locked in combat with German forces for control of a canal when the Germans broke through. Mulliken...
Brutal Comeuppance. The offer and its reception marked a significant turning point in the long and hitherto stormy history of Spain's relations with her former colonies. Between 1503 and 1660 Spanish galleons shipped about $1 billion worth of gold and silver bullion from the New World, while conquistadors slaughtered or enslaved thousands of Indians. Spain's comeuppance was just as brutal; in 15 short years under leaders like Simón Bolivar, José de San Martin and Bernardo O'Higgins, the American colonies threw off Spanish dominance and established their independence. Unlike Britain, Spain found...
...their store frontage, this year hit upon a giant jeweled necklace consisting of eleven sections made up of 33 hexagonal frames wrapped in gilt tinsel. In the center of each hexagon is a three-foot star, and at the bottom of each dangles yet another star embedded with silver reflectors. Explains one of the designers: "Father Christmas is losing his charm. Even cribs are less popular. People want something different...
...they can keep their eyelids from drooping at Kwaidan's plots, moviegoers may well be enchanted by its decor. Director Kobayashi imagines a never-never land of vermilion skies and shimmering, silver-green grass, as miraculously unreal as a Japanese landscape painting on silk. Such filmic virtuosity seems almost commonplace, though, among moviemakers of Japan, who sometimes say nothing and say it so impressively that their essays on art appreciation pass for art itself...