Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silver Platter. In critical areas, the Communists now have the initiative-or at least have deprived the allies of it. Communist soldiers are, moreover, fighting with new and sophisticated weaponry: rapid-firing Communist-made AK-47 assault rifles, Soviet-supplied hand grenades, machine guns and amphibious tanks, and a family of devastatingly effective mortars and rockets (see THE WORLD...
...attack on the encircling Communists "is imminent" because "the enemy just can't be left to hold even a rapier-sized sword near the city." In the North, another U.S. commander declared that the concentration of some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong has given the U.S. "silver-platter" opportunities to bring its firepower to bear in conventional battles...
Their love is not apocalyptic. It floats on and on in the yellow light of ether. And what is hard reality? White tablecoths with blue and red anemones. Toes curling over a tightrope. Sharp silver wine in a wine glass...
...formation of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) gave collegiate track the biggest boost it would ever get--it held its first meet that year at Saratoga, New York, offering a huge silver cup as a trophy to the team winning the most IC4A titles between then...
...ended up winning the meet for six straight years, and 10 times in all in the next 12. Harvard's winning streak was broken only in 1887 and 1889--distastefully, by Yale. In the '89--13 years after the first IC4A meet--Harvard was given permanent possession of the silver trophy cup--recognizing the Crimson as the country's first intercollegiate track power...