Word: silver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...salute sounded from the Dutch cruiser, De Ruyter, in the harbor. Carillons throughout the city began to peal, and a company of Dutch marines marched up to the palace to the tune of Colonel Bogie March. In wave upon wave, the royal procession proceeded to the town hall, silver-helmeted motorcyclists, limousines with the visiting kings and queens, six glittering coaches for the bridal couple, Queen Juliana, Prince Bernhard and their three younger daughters, and Claus's widowed mother, together with rank upon rank of blue-uniformed cavalry officers with high fur busbies. Said a watching Dutchman: "We look...
...dollar was named after the thaler, the German currency at the time of the American Revolution. The British pound was named for its weight in silver, and nationalistic France naturally named its money the franc. Last week Zambia announced that it would soon trade in its pounds, shillings and pence for something more poetic. In 1968 it will change to decimal currency and one kwacha (dawn) will be worth 100 ngwee (brightnesses...
...marigold (see color pages), a large bloomer meant to last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana, whose petals turn to silver near the stem, and a bright new floribunda, Apricot Nectar...
Miss Helen Loftis, a U.S. employee, testified that she found three ounces of marijuana in a silver snuff box concealed between Miss Leary's legs, the Associated Press reports...
Lowell boasts one of the few complete sets of out-of-tune Russian bells in the Western hemisphere and a dining hall full of date-snowing $10,000 silver chandeliers and pasted-on columns. In addition there are seven squash courts, along with the usual pool and TV rooms, the Harvard Mountaineering Club Library, and top-ranked intramural soccer, squash, and cross-country squads...