Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago, Sheldon S. Wolin, a professor of politics at Princeton University writing in the New York Review of Books, was wrestling with the same problem. He found solace, or at least something of a possible silver lining, in an unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli's Discourses, the 15th century Florentine sage declares of bodies such as republics that "those changes are beneficial that bring them back to their original principles. And those are the best-constituted bodies, and have the longest existence, which possess the intrinsic means of frequently renewing themselves." This renewal...
...their striped pants at home and come in ordinary business suits. Giscard, who will be wearing a suit instead of the traditional white tie and tails, planned to forsake the usual armada of limousines and motorcycles and arrive at the palace on foot. There he would review not the silver-helmeted Garde Républicaine but a unit of the First Army's Second Dragoon Regiment, in which he served as a tank gunner during World War II. When he later makes the ceremonial visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe...
...dark tuxedo, the bride dressed in a red and white gown and bedecked herself with flowers on her toes, and they exchanged vows. At the guru's $80,000 Denver home, guests eyed a mountain of wedding gifts, including a cabin cruiser parked on the lawn and a silver Masarati with JUST MARRIED neatly whitewashed on its rear window...
...CURT "SUDDEN VICTORY" GOWDY SPORTSCASTING SILVER MICROPHONE without a doubt belongs to the Dartmouth College radio crew, for broadcasting the second game of a Harvard-Dartmouth doubleheader from Cambridge. The Crimson won the game 2-1. Lots of action in Hanover...
...providing the traditional trappings of a legal education. And even if, in the future, the school does get around to decking its modest halls with the images of graduates-made-good, it is unlikely that the paintings will display bushy-eyebrowed judges in their robes, nor silver-haired, pipe-smoking scholars of the law. Instead, they will probably depict a long-haired man working in a tenants' organizing office, or a tee-shirted woman advising welfare mothers of their rights...