Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wood, silver medal winner in the recent Winter Olympics, holds a slim lead over defending champion Emmerich Danzer of Austria in the battle for first place...
...cruelty, but they were thankful for the priests' ministrations. They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred to the sun god and silver that once glittered in Cuzco's temple of the moon...
...mestizo craftsmen better wages or higher social status than silversmithing. That they worked with surpassing skill can be seen in 210 examples of their wares, selected by the Smithsonian Institution's Richard Ahlborn, that go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this month. Silver was plentiful in colonial Peru, and Andean artisans used it for both religious and household articles. Grandees' stirrups alone weighed as much as 40 lbs., and in even the humblest Indian homes were found silver incense burners and boxes...
Oldtime fans still talk with awe about the thundering Auto Unions that dominated the Grand Prix circuit in the late 1930s, and the howling "Silver Arrows" of Mercedes-Benz that Juan Manuel Fangio drove to victory after victory in the mid-1950s. But for a nation that once ruled the road, Germany has taken few top honors recently. Its last triumph in the 24 Hours of Le Mans came way back in 1952, and no German car has won a Grand Prix race for half a dozen years. But in Florida last week a trio of long-tailed Porsche...
...bobsled. And no one could keep pace with Russia's Ludmila Titova in the ladies' 500-meter speed-skating race, although three U.S. girls-Minnesota's Mary Meyers, Illinois' Dianne Holum and Ohio's Jenny Fish-tied for second place, and all got silver medals...