Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestselling single new toy around, despite the competition of other dolls such as Stone Burke, paratrooper, James Bond, Illya Kuryakin and Captain Action, who can be dressed as Batman, Superman or Steve Canyon. Keeping the troops faithful to Joe are a brand-new G.I.-Joe Mercury capsule with solid silver space suit ($10), a G.I.-Joe Sea-Sled that operates under water ($14), and a six-man international task force of "action soldiers of the world"-French, German, Japanese, British, Australian, and a fur-capped Russian...
Equally delicate is the choice of gift for people one knows but would like to know better. Here too, the need is for something that expresses warmth but nothing so intense as to be thought presumptuous-perhaps the silver thingumajig of indeterminate value but clearly stamped "Tiffany." The wrong but frequently observed rule is that a gift for a rich friend-acquaintance has to be relatively expensive, while the present for a friend of lower income can be relatively cheap. Thus, the giver often finds himself sulkily spending more on those who enjoy it less. Actually, any present for someone...
...Stage. Even Mao's wife has been brought into the fray. At a rally of "art workers" and elite Red Guards, out came Mrs. Mao herself, starlet of the Shanghai silver screen in the '30s, to help the cause in her new role as deputy leader of the cultural revolution and cultural adviser to the army. Were she anyone but the chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, as Mrs. Mao is known from the Long March days, would long since have felt the sting of Red Guard scorn for sybaritic luxuries; she enjoys the perquisites of three servants...
...Roaring Forties. His most formidable obstacle was a stretch of black, tempestuous ocean just east of the Cape in the latitudes known forbiddingly as the "roaring forties." In Moby Dick, Melville described how the Pequod "sharply bowed to the blast" in these storm-tossed waters, with "showers of silver chips" flying over her bulwarks. In the voyages of the clippers, a crew of more than three dozen seasoned hands was needed to keep a vessel from disaster in the roaring forties...
...company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped-in profile-like an inverted T. Berlin's aerotrain resembles a sleek silver bus, rides less than an inch above the rail on a cushion of air produced by two 50-h.p. Renault Gordini engines, propels and brakes itself with a 260-h.p. jet-booster aircraft engine rear-mounted on its roof...