Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful escape. One woman, for example, reported seeing three men on a raft; police gave it a good try, but found neither men nor raft. And, as for the chagrined officials of Alcatraz, they had learned at least one lesson from the tablespoon trio: start counting the silver before, not after, the guests leave...
...sacred birds of Spain, standing high in their twig nests and fanning their young with great wings. The gypsies were on the road last week, trekking north for the summer. In hot. sunny squares, cavernous cathedrals waited, filled with cool air and the dusty odor of saintly bones in silver boxes...
...Manolo will be on in a few minutes." Haya's silver-haired vice-presidential candidate. Manuel Seoane, soon appeared to deny that Belaunde-or anyone else-could claim victory so soon...
Eggs with Hens Inside. He produced everything from an image of Buddha in nephrite (a form of jade) for the King of Siam to many of the great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs...
...Boston last week, silver-haired, short-tempered Patrick Benedict McGinnis, 58, bowed out as head of a Class I U.S. railroad for the fourth time in ten years. But in surrendering his job as chief executive of the 127-year-old Boston & Maine, the hotspur of U.S. railroading at least set a refreshing precedent. On previous occasions-aboard the Norfolk Southern, the Central of Georgia and the New Haven-McGinnis was tossed out by angry stockholders. At the B. & M. he decided to move up to chairman on his own hook...