Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen to it, then cut loose. They killed more than 50 Japanese, spiked the guns, and escaped with only one casualty. Marcos won the first of a brace of Silver Stars for the operation, and a few weeks later was recommended for the U.S. Medal of Honor for his part in the defense of the Salian River. But the recommendation was never filed with Washington, and Marcos failed in becoming the only Filipino to win America's highest military award...
Marcos' guerrillas were among the most effective in the islands. When Douglas MacArthur made good his promise to return to the Philippines, Marcos won his second Silver Star. Singlehanded, he stood off a 50-man Japanese patrol; when his submachine-gun fire drove them off, Marcos pursued them alone for two miles?despite the fact that he had taken a bullet...
...must have come as a surprise to the Wall Street brokerage house where he works, after he'd been telling everybody he was in the hospital with a slipped disc. The thing is, he was. With Gianni bedridden, Anne, 23, now six months pregnant, dressed up in a silver and white minitent and trooped off to the benefit premiere of Hawaii, organized by her mother. Anne's escort: TV Producer Michael Santangelo, a friend of Gianni's who looks enough like him to fool any photographer...
...gaunt face with silver, brutus-cut hair at once impressed the gathering of some 150 persons with the solemnity and weight of the occasion...
...instance, he appeared in public leading his pet ant on a leash. On other occasions he wondered evilly if Memorial Day poppies contain opium, tsked sympathetically about a resolutely modern painter who cut off his ear with an electric razor, revealed regretfully that he once owned a silver mine but it tarnished...