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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pitch black, the old. Cape houses warm against the biting wind. As you drive out toward the highway, you see no one, not a soul. The only signs of civilization are the warm yellow lights coming from some of the houses and, seen through a large window, the silver-white light of a television, broadcasting the news of the summer people to the winter people who really don't care; but it breaks the monotony...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: 'The Cape of Winter | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

...raises the withholding rates for high-income individuals. This will add $3.6 billion to Government revenues for fiscal 1967, but absolutely nothing in future years. The budget also profited from the great coin shuffle, though the shuffle was not primarily intended to aid the budget. By putting less silver in its coins to alleviate the silver shortage, the Government expects to collect a windfall of $1.6 billion from seigniorage, which is the difference between the face value of coins and the cost of making them. Example: the old silver quarters contained 240 worth of metal, but the new copper-core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: READING THE BUDGET FOR FUN & PROFIT | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...silver wings on my son's chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1966 | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...tough-talking hombre with a shock of silver-white hair and a mustache to match, Bill McGaw, 51, does not usually concern himself with current events. He likes to roam the West, tracking down such legends as the saga of the one-woman bawdyhouse in Columbus, N. Mex. Along the way he collects Western relics, including the stagecoach that may have carried President Polk to his inauguration. In July 1963 he learned that the New Mexico Press Association had held a dinner in honor of defeated' California Congressman John Rousselot, who is presently the public relations director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors: Showdown in the Southwest | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

This particular kind of poverty is as unfamiliar to Harvard students as the West and the Canyon. The Huvasupai subsist on Stone Age agriculture. What they know of towns and civilization is the backsides of the silver boomtowns on Highway 66: cheap wine, pool halls, dusty '51 Pontiacs parked near pseud-adobe cafes, hostility from merchants who won't give Indians credit...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: PBH Volunteers Strive to Understand Problems, Fears of American Indians | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

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