Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly before graduation day in 1917, Ervin enlisted as an infantry private in World War I. He was wounded in action twice in France and won the Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry" and the Distinguished Service Cross...
...Thieu regime have charged more than 90,000 truce violations, ranging from isolated shellings to battalion-level battles. Yet the vaunted International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS), with its 1,160 neutral observers, its 42 local offices throughout South Viet Nam and its fleet of black-and-silver planes, has managed to complete investigations and file final reports on only six truce violations. At week's end, two helicopters carrying eleven ICCS members were reported missing in Northern Quang Tri province; one of the choppers was believed to have been hit by ground fire...
...well-heeled snow freak, "because it shows success." A "spoon" (usually half a gram) of cocaine costs between $25 and $50, and lasts an ordinary user just one evening. Heavy snorters spend several hundred a week. It is considered chic to inhale coke through a tightly rolled $100 bill. Silver straws from Tiffany's, intended for creme de menthe, are also used. Expensive vials and snuffboxes are popular too. Priest, a coke-dealing hero of Super Fly-a film some authorities blame for increasing the drug's popularity-snorts from a tiny coke spoon. These dainty scoops, sometimes...
...always bother to conceal it. Their regular policy, says William D. Rogers, a Washington, D.C., attorney concerned with the legal and ethical aspects of acquisition, is "the less you know, the better." The Met itself has a suspect collection of 219 objects ranging from pottery to rare silver ewers and vases. When the collection was bought through a New York dealer, J.J. Klegman, in 1966, it was widely rumored that the Met had at last acquired the so-called Lydian treasure trove. The Lydian collection came out of four 6th century tombs found near the ancient site of Sardis...
...Levi's version can never be quite the same as Gatsby's "white suit with a silver shirt and a gold-colored tie." But if designers like Albini and Lauren are right, the zigzag cycle of nostalgic fashion has found its next turn. "Can't repeat the past?" cried Gatsby incredulously. "Why, of course you can. I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before." Got that, Sport...