Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again at a United Steelworkers rally in Buffalo one day last week as silver-maned President David McDonald, a grin of victory on his face, slowly made his way toward the speaker's platform along an aisle jammed with jubilant steelworkers. Crowed McDonald from the platform: "Victory is yours...
...successfully through Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, fell speechless only once, when a newsman asked him in hesitant English to relate "a small moral anecdote for the edification of the young." From aboard the U.S.S. Indianapolis, F.D.R. scribbled a hasty note to his wife: "You have been given a huge silver tea set by the Brazilian government, very old Brazilian hammered silver! And not at all bad looking. I really think the moral effect of the Good Neighbor Policy is making itself definitely felt...
Through the cold, predawn darkness of Washington one day last week, a small group of high U.S. officials known informally as the "Committee of Principals" drove to the Military Air Transport Service terminal. There they boarded a silver Douglas C-118, took off for Augusta, Ga. to keep an 8:30 a.m. appointment with the President. Within three days the U.S.'s self-imposed, 14-month suspension of nuclear tests was due to expire on its deadline of midnight Dec. 31. The urgent question to be decided that morning: Should the U.S., or should it not, renew the nuclear...
...kickoff. Matched against outweighed Washington, Wisconsin was a solid 6½-point favorite to continue the haughty Big Ten's annual devastation (12 victories in 13 years) of any team the West Coast could field. "I don't know why I keep coming back," complained one silver-flasked fan. "All I do each year is get drunk and start crying...
...Last week Northwest announced that it will hire one or two Korean stewardesses, expects to start testing comely college graduates this month. Applicants, said Northwest, must speak English and Japanese, be less than 27, "should have a nice, slender figure, lots of charm, no glasses -and no gold or silver front teeth...