Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophomore from Australia, Hayes won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1969 and held the world record in the 220-yard butterfly from 1960 to 1962. He is Harvard's second swimming All-American this year; senior Danny Mahoney was named to diving team at the NCAA championships in Iowa last month...
...huge jet plane, a veritable Silver Bird, touched down at Logan Airport yesterday and out stepped . . . Vicki Albright...
Chomping on a long black cigar in an amber holder, stubby, silver-haired Leander Perez, segregationist boss of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee the lowdown on what Negroes are really like. "They are of immoral character," drawled the Democratic politician. Their only interest is "to get welfare checks," he said. "They are a low type of citizenship...
...guard glimpses of world leaders playing at the game of war: "The Prime Minister's valet came into my bedroom and said: 'The Prime Minister's compliments, and the German armies have invaded Russia.' Thereupon he presented me with a large cigar on a silver salver...
...Silver-Tongued Star. The star defense witness was none other than Ev Dirksen. In his most sonorous tones, sipping water to moisten his silver tongue, Dirksen said he had known Stratton "man and boy" since the defendant was 14, went on to relate the burdensome financial life of a politician. "I have never yet found a substitute for money," said Ev. "Carrying out the work and projecting an image obviously requires funds. I've clocked the demands made upon me over a period of six months, and it comes roughly to $100 a day in political and nonpolitical requests...