Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...condition from his long imprisonment, gamely climbed up and down hills. Colonel Boumedienne. F.L.N. chief of staff, invited reporters to inspect the cave headquarters, which were simply furnished with cots and rough tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire...
...ceremony at Western Railway Station in Vienna last week recalled Austria's ancient grandeur. The Viennese Guards, clad in grey uniforms with silver fourra-geres, stood at attention as a trumpet blared. Beside them on the platform waited Austrian President Adolf Scharf and Chancellor Alfons Gorbach as the train slid in bearing West Germany's President Heinrich Liibke for a five-day state visit...
...years, slogged over a course made treacherous by rain, snow and hail that dumped 15 of the 32-horse starting field, was followed by Wyndburgh (starting odds 45-1), Mr. What (22-1) and Guy Navaree (100-1). The favorite, last year's winner Nicolaus Silver (8-1), lumbered home seventh...
...their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found in the tomb of a girl who died in Canosa. Among the objects was a jewel case on the cover of which was a silver disk showing a soft-fleshed Nereid...
Then at Jaipur, the First Lady was expected to throw a coin from her own country into a silver pot. Galbraith, said the columnist, had not informed Mrs. Kennedy of the local superstitions and was even caught without an American coin. Touring newswomen provided a quarter...