Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Endeavoring to explode old wives' tales about how to tell a poison mushroom (one wrong example: if it turns a piece of silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served...
...tried to make their warning more emphatic. Only hours before McNamara's arrival, a Boeing 707 jet approaching Saigon's airport was winged by a .30-cal. bullet that punctured an oil line, forcing the craft to land on three engines. Playing it safe, McNamara's silver Air Force jet swooped in at a steep angle to avoid ground fire...
...ostentation, the archbishop warned, "separates us from the workers and the poor. Let us end once and for all the impression of a bishop-prince, residing in a palace, isolated from his clergy." At the closing Mass of the council, Camara suggested, the bishops should pile their gold and silver pectoral crosses at the feet of the Pope and receive plain wooden ones from him in exchange. The archbishop may get at least part of his wish: the schema on the clergy has a chapter dealing with the right use of churchly goods...
...expansion of Harvard's own loan program, from less than $80,000 to $600,000 last year, the strain of expansion had become considerable. NDEA funds have been welcome relief, and the hope of larger appropriations in 1964-65 for the scholarship office is the nearest thing to a silver lining in a sky growing cloudy with next year's tuition increase...
...dropped its objections, the citizenry is still concerned about invaders. "The chunnel would be an entrance for an enemy," worried one Londoner. "It's always been that little bit of water that's kept us safe," said another. Despite the committee's report, Gladstone's silver streak seemed as wide as ever...