Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remained one of the brightest, most tenacious stars in world gastronomy.* Kingdoms and republics have passed, boulevards and bridges have been renamed, heroes have risen and fallen-and been denied tables -but La Tour d'Argent has remained as immutable as its name, a tower of salivary silver. To this day, for any gourmet it towers high above Eiffel...
Government efforts to excuse (or discredit) Rice's behavior succeed for a time. But after returning to earth, he calls for an end to manipulation by a hidden power elite and sets out in a silver jumpsuit and old silver school bus called Liberty Two to carry his message across the nation. He becomes a potent grassroots force before he is destroyed by shadowy operatives representing some sinister force within the Government...
...Reserve Chairman C. William Verity said that the company would build a $172 million on-land disposal system-provided it got federal financial assistance. Lord called his proposal "absurd." He ordered "an immediate curtailment of the discharges." In order to comply, the company really did briefly shut down its Silver Bay plant...
...circuit court judges who convened at night around a dining table in a restaurant in Springfield, Mo. Later this month the full appellate court will hear the company's appeal for a permanent stay. Meantime, the employees are back at work, and every day the big plant at Silver Bay is spilling 67,000 tons of taconite tailings into Lake Superior...
Kentucky Derby officials would not be surprised if the Lone Ranger rode up this week to get Silver a special dispensation to race the three-year-olds in Saturday's Run for the Roses. Everyone else with a horse seems to want a slot in the starting gate this year. At last count there were about 35 horses headed for Churchill Downs-far more than the track can or cares to accommodate, particularly for the 100th running of the race...