Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mother and Dad looked on beamishly from a pink-and-silver box high above the floor, and the orchestra burst into America the Beautiful. With that, Julie Nixon, 17, younger daughter of the former Vice President, stepped forward into the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to make the first curtsy at this season's International Debutante Ball. Her sister Patricia had preceded her by two years as the U.S. representative at the gala, which presented 56 debs from twelve nations. Julie, a Smith College freshman, may have one-upped her sister in the escort department...
...Australia's Davis Cup team, picks his players as much for the hang of their jaws as the strength of their forearms and wrists. At least it looked that way last week, when Hopman and his prognathous protégés posed proudly with a sterling-silver heirloom. And why not stick out their chins? The Aussies have been inviting the world to come fight for the Davis Cup every year. But hardly anyone makes much of a scrap...
...born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, so goes the adage, is to be born assured of wealth. Rarer still are the spoons on which tots teethed in Olde Englande. So rare, in fact, that in 1531, when table manners were simply a toothy process of disconnecting meat from bones, one Humfrey Cooke willed that "every one of my childrene shal have one silver spone callid the Apostles." For when it came to skimming the crème de la crème, nothing could match a set of spoons decorated with figures of the Twelve Apostles...
...championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...
...pound and penny first appeared about the time of King Offa in the 8th century. They were originally named for the Roman libra and denarius (hence the still used signs of ? and d), but the libra eventually evolved into the pound, because it was worth that weight in silver. Similarly, it took 240 pennies to make a pound because that was the number of pennies that weighed a pound.* Shillings joined Offa's awful system in the 16th century, and that basically formed the current currency setup-though such denominations as the florin (2 shillings), half crown...