Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Code of Hammurabi by more than 150 years. It showed that price controls were used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom and that criminal penalties were carefully spelled out: "If a man bites the nose of another man and severs it, he shall pay a fine of one pound of silver...
...plan. "I will have to be 75 before I can retire," he told the committee. "I've had a heart attack and I don't know if I can last until then." Two Detroit machinists formerly employed by the Michigan Tool Co., Earl MacLeit and George Silver, told similar tales of woe. Each of them was laid off after more than three decades of steady work when Michigan Tool's parent company, ExCellO Corp., decided to move the Detroit operation to North Carolina. The men were not invited to relocate. Now they subsist on unemployment checks...
Street Talk. Van Peebles is a cool dude, casting a cynical eye on the world from behind his silver shades. He has not had a permanent address in ten years, hauling his belongings around in a battered knapsack. He is handsome in a wiry, wary way. He gestures with a skinny cigar, spilling out a blend of street talk and businessmen's lingo. But for all his jive and his expatriate status, he insists that he is deadly serious about his black identity. His phrases are familiar: "Of all the ways we've been exploited...
Mahmoud's heart leaped. From the orange license plate on the slowly approaching car, he knew it was an Israeli and not a silver-tagged Gaza vehicle. Mahmoud' s friend, Wasfi Mussa Masharawi, 16, sauntered out into the middle of the street, forcing the car to slow to a crawl. Mahmoud tossed his grenade into a rolled-down window. The grenade had a four-second fuse, and he was gone before the explosion...
...stand last week at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles, gathered around a silver and red loudspeaker bank inscribed BLUES POWER, Muddy and his men played with a controlled exuberance that suggested disciplined violence. The band was as tight as one of the strings on his slide guitar. Muddy sang in a trombone-like baritone that was as true as his middle-aged stomach is flat...