Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into Stanford," Hoover told how he helped stage the first football game between Stanford and the University of California. Student Manager Hoover and others sold a lot of tickets in advance of the historic game: "That's why both teams had uniforms." Day of the game, gold and silver coins glutted the ticket office because "nobody used that dirty paper money." But when kickoff time came, there was nothing to kick off. A student had to be dispatched by street car to a nearby sporting-goods store to buy the vital prop of the spectacle: a ball. Still...
...takes in the view and simpers: "Oh. I'm so glad she let me have this room!" She's not really glad, she hastens to explain. She's just playing a game her father taught her, "the glad game." Object of the game: to find the silver lining in every cloud, the gold tooth in every shark. And Pollyanna plays the game with such a monstrous power of positive thinking that after two hours and 14 minutes under that relentless little ray of sunshine, the whole town she lives in is dissolved into a mile-wide meringue...
...Alam Shah, 61, Sultan of Selangor, was elected to the five-year rotating kingship of independent Malaya, succeeding the late Tuan-ku Abdul Rahman. Gravely, the new king, who once operated a sporting-goods store and now raises rare orchids in his palace gardens, inscribed his name in a silver-bound book. Last week he went before Malaya's democratically elected Parliament to announce some good news. Come July, the emergency declared twelve years ago to combat Communist subversion and terror will officially end. Said the new king: "Restrictions on our liberty and livelihood [which] have become almost...
While hereditary estates slip through his fingers, Don Fabrizio is still so much the autocrat of his own dinner table as to curl silver spoons into hoops with his powerful fist during gusts of paternal rage. His sons are sulky, his daughters mute and brittle. His pious, hysterical wife chills the prince's ardors by making the sign of the cross in bed. The lusty prince comforts himself with a peasant mistress in Palermo and scandalizes his docile confessor-in-residence by forcing the poor priest to come along for the nighttime carriage ride...
Sicilian Snopes. Like an embalmed pharaoh, Don Fabrizio is surrounded by his possessions, from powdered footmen to Murano chandeliers, from silver soup tureens to gold-flecked frescoes. When a soldier of the risorgimento turns up in Don Fabrizio's garden to remind him of the passions of the dispossessed, the prince gives his pet great Dane some conservative advice ("One never achieves anything by going bang! bang!'') and retreats to his telescope to contemplate the snobbish quietude of the stars...