Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panty hose and stocking tights, no matter that they cost more than twice the price of conventional stockings. To last year's white has been added both dark brown and black, either sheer or opaque. As for evening, legs have never been so glittery. Choices range from silver sheen or shiny gold mesh hose that resemble chain mail to the ultimate in sparkle: real diamond-studded stockings that go all the way up to $1,000 a pair...
...obvious reply--"who needs long drives when you can score quickly in other ways?"--can likewise be answered --"we do, because Harvard is going to face teams that won't hand its touch-downs on a silver platter." Cornell may prove to be such a team this weekend, and if not, then Dartmouth surely will the next Saturday...
Meteorologists have long tried to make rain and break up hailstorms by seeding clouds with silver iodide or lead iodide. Drifting upward from generators on the ground or fed into the clouds from aircraft, the particles become nuclei around which tiny water droplets can cluster to form larger drops and, eventually, hailstones. If enough nuclei are available, according to theory, they compete so vigorously for the moisture in the cloud that none of the hailstones has a chance to become very large...
...quick delivery, the Russians developed a non-splintering antiaircraft shell that could accurately deliver a load of silver iodide as far away as 22 miles without scattering dangerous fragments on populated areas below. Selecting locations in the northern Caucasus, Georgia and the Armenian Republic that lie in a Soviet hail belt, the Russians set up enough radar installations and antiaircraft guns to detect and treat clouds over an area of 1,200,000 acres. During 1964 and 1965, thousands of shells were fired into threatening clouds...
From Pious to Pornographic. Other craftsmen turned to such materials as silver inlays, precious stones, mother-of-pearl and exotic hardwoods to produce intricate designs and motifs that ranged from the pious to the pornographic, often decorating the hidden inside pieces of the guns with motifs to match designs on the outside. Like Europe's great furniture makers, the best gunmakers also turned out pattern books of designs, which were slavishly copied by other craftsmen for decades. In the 1740s, for instance, Russian court gunsmiths were still using 1670 French designs to ornament a pair of gold-plated...