Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outfit is pure hippie Latin American bandido-black boots, silver-belted denims, Navajo vest, and a purple velours gaucho hat patted down over his colossal corona of frizzy hair. On the hat is a button that reads, "Let's Brag a Little." So he does: "What I don't like about being on the road, man, is that you only remember each town by the broads. Like the blonde broad with the mole, she's from Frisco -things like that...
...debase the denarius under Nero (A.D. 54-68) after they ran into-but failed to recognize-their balance of payments problems. Founded on plunder, Rome as an empire lacked the manufacturing, agriculture and commerce to pay for its costly imports. Trajan added copper to the once 99%-pure-silver denarius, and later the coin became wholly base metal. A century before Alaric sacked the Eternal City in A.D. 410, Rome had lost not only its purchasing power but also the wherewithal to resist barbarians at its borders...
GORDON S, LIVINGSTON Silver Spring...
Their wings flash silver at the moon...
Predictably, the gold rush spread ripples through stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic. The price of gold-and silver-mining shares spurted on the London Stock Exchange in response to heavy domestic, continental and U.S. orders. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones average dipped to a 14-month low of 827.03, then rallied a bit to end the week...