Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that big fat lazy bastard at?" Booker-T demanded suddenly. "He still inside? Fats! Get out here, man!" Just then, Fats Houston, a tremendous man of maybe 300 pounds, waddled through the door of Buster's in his elaborate Grand Marshal's uniform and blew a burst on his silver whistle...
...hundred years ago last week, about 500 Irish and Chinese laborers, politicians, railroad men and prostitutes gathered on a lonely plateau at Promontory, Utah, to witness a momentous event: the joining of East to West by the first transcontinental railroad. Central Pacific President Leland Stanford picked up a silver sledgehammer, swung at. the final spike and missed. Union Pacific Vice President Thomas Durant took his turn-and also missed. Finally, a Union Pacific laborer stepped up and drove it home. A waiting telegrapher tapped out the message: "The Pacific railroad is completed...
Many Voices. A veteran of Marine Corps action in the Pacific, where he won the Silver Star and Navy Cross, Hunt progressed from a FORTUNE magazine writer to LIFE bureau chief in Chicago and Washington. As LIFE'S managing editor, he added guest columnists and more by-lined critical articles, and achieved a more effective blending of words and pictures. Hunt not only made LIFE more personal but added, as he puts it, "many voices, many points of view, as well as its own." His philosophy was that LIFE should "report the news as magnificently as possible," realizing that...
Then there were pocketbook issues at stake. The French bourgeoisie, which has never altogether given up the notion that the only safe place for silver is in a sock, was angry and upset over France's rapid inflation and high taxes and the lingering uncertainty about the value of the franc. In the two weeks immediately preceding the election, small businessmen staged two strikes over the tax issue?the first in their history. Big businessmen, on the other hand, were concerned about shrinking profits and the "participation" that De Gaulle had promised their workers following the chaos of last spring...
...more than a raw electronic note. A little mystifying to think that this particular sound is the supreme voice of rock-music. But suddenly, when Sheldon is playing, pulling out an insistent sizzling line of pure sound, polished and gleaming at the edges, like a stream of oozing silver liquid, everything begins to make sense and rock is redeemed as one of the most important artistic movements of out time...