Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior was named to the second team All-Ivy squad and trailed only team leader Lou Silver in scoring and rebounding, with a 15.5 scoring average and 9.3 rebounds per game...
...automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote - in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry...
...more than 180 tons of gold objects and 16,000 tons of silver had been pumped back to Spain from the mineral veins of its colonies, altering the political balance of Europe. "It is his Indian Golde," wrote Sir Walter Raleigh of the Emperor Charles V in 1596, "that indangereth and disturbeth all the nations of Europe, it purchaseth intelligence, creepeth into Councels." Indeed, the tonnage figure is conservative. Much more was taken than the clerks recorded. And for centuries, at home as well as abroad, all was destroyed. Until quite recently, Raleigh's "Indian Golde" was still being...
...wind-draft casting furnaces, the Indian goldsmiths attained a level of technical skill that seems no less amazing today than it did in the 16th century, when that consummate metalworker Benvenuto Cellini is said to have spent weeks trying (and failing) to duplicate an Aztec fish of flexible silver plates inlaid with gold. The earlier goldworking cultures of Peru used hammered sheets as their basic material, but the Colombian artisans preferred to cast their images from gold. They were masters of the lost-wax technique, whereby a model of clay and charcoal was formed and then covered with thin sheets...
...fairy tales the prince sometimes saves his skin and pushes the plot forward by turning into a succession of wild creatures. Trapped on a cliff, he may become a magpie and fly away. Blocked by a lake, he is transformed into a silver fish who swims under the window of a disconsolate princess in time to catch the golden ring she drops and be turned into a prince again. Somewhat the same sort of trick is managed in this beautifully controlled first novel...