Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoppers. In fact, the Communists seem to be erecting a new matriarchy. Two weeks ago 80 million women were "organized" to see the new film, Silver Blossoms in the Sky, the story of China's female paratroopers. And in Shanghai, Peking and Canton, one Swiss traveler observed the weirdest sight of all-long lines of dutiful men who had been sent out by their women before dawn to wait, shopping baskets in hand, for the markets to open...
...France. As always with Cistercian monasteries, the monks had picked their site with a view to maintaining a balance between the spiritual and the useful. In the center of the main cloister bubbled a pure natural spring. The surrounding fields were and are fertile, and the blue and silver mountain peaks cupping the high valley lift the spirit as well. The Cistercians did full honor to the site with an architecture that was noble in scale, harmonious in proportion and austere in detail. Although partly in ruins, the place remains a serenely inspiring experience to the few tourists who reach...
...dragon-a monster!" says one lifelong Bavarian pursuer of the huchen. The fish is a bit of both: triangular head with gaping mouth and reddish eyes, a silver-bellied, copper-backed body that can grow as big as 6 ft. and 110 lbs. With snow on their foreheads and sweat on their cheeks, fishermen have struggled for more than an hour to land even 40-lb. catches, then continued the fight on shore with club and stone. One last-resort tactic: falling full-length on the huchen and smothering it in a snowbank...
...cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find the decor irritatingly ludicrous. On an assistant professor's salary, Tony and Janet maintain a duplex Manhattan penthouse, complete with panoramic view and a gracious clutter of antique silver buckets atwirl with champagne...
Hugh Griffith is Long John Silver...