Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afford to feed us." The London Daily Herald had a nice old British lady tiptoe up to five G.I.s and offer to repay past U.S. generosity by sending food parcels to help "your dear ones over the economic crisis." The Daily Mail's Columnist John Jelley found a silver lining in the gold crisis (see BUSINESS), because now Americans "will be forced to realize that the world is not, after all, half antique shop and half soup kitchen with them as guardian angels of both. And we will once again start looking towards our own ingenuity and enterprise...
...Agee, like Chekhov, really substituted feeling for drama, like Chekhov tinged sadness with humor, and showed a compassion that though it might not acquit errant beings, would always pardon them. It is for such things that All the Way Home, whatever its inadequacies, has more small coins of pure silver to offer, and less stage money than any other American play this season...
...capital. There he keeps-almost entirely to himself-one of the greatest private art collections in the world. Except for a 1948 show of 200 works in Lucerne, hardly any of the prince's 1,500 paintings, 75 tapestries, or the vast assortment of bronzes porcelain, baroque silver, Renaissance sculpture, Gothic and Renaissance furniture are ever seen by the public. Instead 95% of the collection stays in the prince's castles, mostly in the cellar and a tower of the castle at Vaduz. The prince neither adds much nor sends anything out on loan...
Nelson was awarded an inscribed silver bowl, "given (annually) by the Boston football writers, radio, and television men to the New England college football senior, whose achievement on and off the gridiron was considered most outstanding...
...another series, seamanship, and not racing tactics, gave the Crimson skippers the silver. They brought back the Wood Trophy from Providence only because three of their four boats managed to finish the first race, while high winds took care of the rest of the competition...