Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue an open warning right now to all dope pushers, to all rip-off artists, to all muggers: It's time to leave Detroit. I don't give a damn if they are black or white, or if they wear Super Fly suits or blue uniforms with silver badges: Hit the road...
...sorry, sir, your credit card has expired," said the Butler Aviation official at Palm Beach International Airport. The short, gray-haired man in the blue sports outfit had just stepped off a silver-gray and blue Olympic Airways Learjet, which had stopped for refueling on a flight from Acapulco, Mexico, to New York. But it seems that Greek Oil Tanker Tycoon Aristotle Onassis, 67, had failed at a simple piece of domestic scheduling: his Shell Oil credit card was out of date, and Ari had no charge account with Butler. So while he coped with the necessary paper work...
...Green Hornet (Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee). The Hornet and the Ranger were creations of Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, who furnished them both with similar appurtenances. The Masked Rider of the Plains had a faithful Indian companion, Tonto, and a 200-carpower horse, Silver. The Green Hornet had a faithful Japanese valet, Kato (during World War II Kato abruptly became a Filipino), and a supercar with the name of a horse, Black Beauty. The supernatural thrived in a Poe-like atmosphere on Inner Sanctum and Lights Out -programs that featured echo chambers, creaking doors...
Wilson is capable of hypnotically poignant cameos. A slim young black mother, dressed wholly in black except for narrow white cuffs at her wrists, wakes one of her nightgowned small children, pours and serves a glass of milk, then slays the child ritually with a glittering silver knife. She wakes the other child and repeats the action. Then she grieves for both with the same grave serenity with which she has killed them...
Against Temple, Harvard's Tony Jenkins and Lou Silver will have to watch Newman, who grabbed 22 rebounds in a win over Navy, 52-41, last week. However, Newman is a hack artist and if Jenkins and Silver get too close, he will definitely let the axe fall...