Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff, and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.... Then the fish came alive, with all his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty....'I am a tired old man. But I have killed this...
...sighed silver-maned Boston Lawyer George Alpert, 63, last week, "the campaign that I have been conducting for the past five years is a crusade. I have learned to my sorrow that the road of the crusader is not exactly a path of roses." No one else thought that "crusader" was the appropriate word for Alpert. as he announced that the New York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad, of which he has been president since 1956. was filing for reorganization under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy...
Next morning, shortly after 7 a.m., a pajama-clad Hemingway went downstairs and from the gun rack took his favorite gun, which, like almost everything he owned, was not merely a thing but a ceremonial object. A twelve-gauge, double-barreled shotgun inlaid with silver, it had been specially made for Hemingway. He put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled both triggers. The blast blew his whole head away except for his mouth, his chin, and part of his cheeks...
...Silver-Haired Seigneur. The nine who shunned this year's trip include four first-place winners in last week's meet, four seconds, one third. Seven of them are married; none are well-off. Without them. Villanova's James F. ("Jumbo Jim") Elliott, who must make do coaching a squad studded with leftovers, should still have a winning team. Along with Budd and 220-yd. Winner Paul Drayton, two sprinters he developed himself, Jumbo has enough speedsters to sweep every flat race from
...novels (I Can Get It For You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp), Weidman writes about unpleasant parents, nasty children, World War II (his civilians feel guilty about not seeing combat), Manhattan's Lower East Side, marriage, and the sort of women who, 25 years ago, wore silver fox capes. He treats these subjects seriously and rarely comes close to humor. He is too meticulous to tolerate really gross cliches (although a hotel room can "command" a view), and he is too circumspect to attempt beauty. He is, as he explains in a soberly appreciative preface, a professional...