Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newly inaugurated Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso off in Washington to tape a talk show, while her home in Windsor Locks, an industrial town, was being robbed. Thieves broke into Mrs. Grasso's six-room house and stole her mother's engagement ring, her own engagement ring, silver and watches "Now I'm a statistic, and I'm as angry and outraged as any other householder," was Ella's reaction. Still, she rejected a proposal for a fence. Said the Governor philosophically: "I don't like fences. They keep the people out, but intruders always...
...guerrillas or other civilians attempted to interfere with his progress, 'then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless.' " Sherman's people got the idea. All over the countryside, Yankees were seen jamming rods into the earth, searching for the jewels and silver that plantation owners' wives had buried. One Yankee veteran declared: "This is probably the most gigantic pleasure expedition ever planned." In Georgia alone, before he swung north for the Carolinas, Sherman inflicted about $100 million in damages...
...many points did Lou Silver score for Harvard against Oral Roberts? How many points did the Penn cagers score against the Crimson in the Palestra? (Silver 38; Penn...
...moments of doubt (which is to say most of the '60s), Melish calms himself by meditating on the contents of his wallet. There is a secret-society pin, a silver matchbook from his wedding and-not to be believed-a condom. Melish is a clear case of arrested development, a closet sentimentalist carrying a cherished artifact of his hot-to-trot days at a time when everyone else seems to be in full gallop...
...Parker developed and coached the first U.S. men's national rowing camp. His crew went on to win a silver medal in the Munich Olympics that summer...