Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Discussion Leader Tom DiBacco of American University announces a refreshment break, the others ignore him; they are busy drafting policy proposals at the corners of the room. DiBacco walks alone out to the foyer and picks up a Coke from the silver tureen...
...students life-giving thoughts. I teach them to hate the shameful exploitation of man by man and the man-hating ideology or racial exclusiveness. I teach my students that life is the highest principle and therefore should not be bought or sold for even the choicest pieces of silver...
This sort of rhetoric is turning on the conservative rank-and-file Republicans, who traditionally play an outsize role in determining the party's presidential standardbearer. Three weeks ago, the silver-haired Connally made a stem-winding speech to 600 Midwestern Republican leaders at a convention in Indianapolis. A subsequent poll of 254 delegates showed that 29% favored Connally for the nomination, while Reagan trailed with 21%. Admits a rival, conservative Congressman Philip Crane of Illinois: "Connally has a lot of pizazz...
Britain's Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...
Raymond moved up to the American eight for the Munich games. That group, dominated by Crimson rowers and coached by Harvard's living legend coach, taciturn Harry Parker, came home with a silver medal...