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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning a few weeks ago, as I walked to classes every morning I'd see myriads of silver flashes on the water. For some reason all the minnows liked to jump out of the water in the early morning, their scales catching the sun as they broke the surface. There were usually many larger fish around, too, because this stretch of the creek was the spawning area. I watched one perch for two weeks while it faithfully guarded its nest against the other fish. It was there every morning and every evening; then one day it was gone. All that...

Author: By Larry Grisham, | Title: Administrators vs. Trees at the University of Texas | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...Among them: the taste for rebelling and the taste for survival-rather splendid survival at that. Living with his mistress, Madame du Châtelet, in the château of Cirey, Voltaire powdered and dressed as if in Paris. She and Voltaire dined in elegance "with lots of silver," gave glittering balls, and inveigled house guests into amateur theatricals. Cirey had its own theater; and between noon and 7 o'clock the next morning, 21 skits and 21 operas were presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chaos of Clarity | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Holy Cross co-captains Tom Lamb and Bill Monsevicz were on the sidelines last night when the Sacramento College football team donned the silver and purple Holy Cross jersies for their final season game against the University of Puget Sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crusader Co-Captains Flown to Sacramento | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

Baby rats had been taken from the biology labs during the afternoon. Individuals in the group planned to present the tiny pink squirming rodents to Pusey on a silver platter garnished with lettuce as a gift from "the tenants of Harvard-owned apartments and the oppressed people of the third world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Rates on Dunster Dinner Menu; Pusey Must Settle for Roast Beef | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...Silver Lining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruins' Burgess Is Back of Week After 24-17 Win | 11/20/1969 | See Source »

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