Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not endorse the pause behind PAUSE. After acknowledging but politely disclaiming his old supporter's hopeful postscript, which indicated that the New Yorker was still his personal choice, Rockefeller bluntly replied that unless the moderates plan to "simply deliver the nomination to the other side on a silver platter," they had better fall in quickly behind Michigan's George Romney. "He is," noted Rockefeller, "consistently running around ten points ahead of Lyndon Johnson in the polls throughout the country. He is the first and only Republican since General Eisenhower to be in that happy position."* Rocky added...
...Aided by Nedi Quamar's African thumb piano (a handmade wooden box holding long metal prongs that are plucked), Renaud Simmons' conga and Joe Chamber's drums, he conjures up a thundering, lashing storm with sweeps across the keyboard -and then lets it fade into the silver pinging of random raindrops. Freddie Hubbard's trumpet has a cry for every change of mood...
...corn, cocoa and tobacco. Within the vast solitudes of its mountains, rolling plains, winding rivers and lush, tropical rain forests, it contains the world's largest hydroelectric potential, one-seventh of the world's iron-ore reserves, 16% of its timber and an incalculable wealth of gold, silver, diamonds and other minerals and semi precious stones...
...made in a suggestive way that remains open to modification. There are certain parallels between Juvenal-Lowell on Rome and Lowell on New York, for example. Consider the lines "Behind each bush perhaps a knife" ("Central Park") and "If you take a walk at night/ carry a little silver, be prepared/ to think each shadow hides a knife or spar" ("The Vanity of Human Wishes"). The more significant parallels with Juvenal, however, lie in the Maine poems, where the wish "to break loose" is in profound tension with the wish to return to "when the universe was young...
...championship silver cup, which has sat in the Radeliffe Gym three of the last five years, went to Brandeis. The cup was donated by Radeliffe in the days it dominated the strip and other women's colleges shivered at the sound of 'Cliffe steel...