Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pleisse River. They were rewarded with two gold medals. One more gold medal went to World Champion Backstroker Roland Matthes in the 100-meter event, a repeat of his performance in Mexico City. By week's end the East Germans had collected an impressive total of eight gold, six silver and nine bronze medals...
...D.D.R. athletes also tried hard to crack the Russian and Japanese monopoly on the gymnastic bars and swings. They initially garnered a silver medal, won by a lithe, pretty medical student named Karin Janz in the women's all-round individual competition. She subsequently won a pair of golds in the individual long-horse and uneven-bar competitions. The men's gymnastics events were a replay of the traditional Japanese-Russian conflict. Exquisitely musculatured for the sport, the Japanese men performed breathtaking airborne arabesques that showed considerably more imagination and verve than the strong but methodical Russians. Although the Japanese...
...Waterston is Benedick to the last corpuscle. He brandishes his cigar like a swagger stick. He discovers his love half knowingly, but with astonishment nonetheless, like a child finding the tooth fairy's silver dollar. Kathleen Widdoes makes Beatrice a proper combination of cold wit and hot blood. When she exclaims, "I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband...
...size and weight. Enough of them to power an electric car would weigh as much as an entire conventional automobile. Furthermore, there is little room for improvement; lead-acid batteries have already been developed close to their theoretical peak. Other batteries using different materials-nickel and cadmium, zinc and silver, or sodium and sulfur-have greater energy density, but they have not yet proved practical either, largely because of high costs...
Manufacturers are also increasing production of a large variety of chess sets that range from the simple, functional and cheap to the bizarre and ultraexpensive. Perhaps the most costly of all is a $100,000 set of gold and silver, designed by Antique Dealer Arthur Corbell and displayed at a recent Los Angeles gem show. But what may well be the most appropriate design for an election year was conceived by LRH Enterprises of New York. Called "The Contemporary Game, Chess '72," it pits Republicans against Democrats, has elephants and donkeys as pawns and well-known politicians...