Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress," in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans, wearing fatigues with the shoulder patches of the 1st Air Cav, the 101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards and medals: Silver Stars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts. Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs. They carried squirt guns, cap pistols, toy rifles made by Mattel...
...Navy lieutenant junior grade, "I'd be the first to defend it." In Viet Nam, Kerry commanded a "swift boat" in the Mekong Delta. Before he went to Viet Nam he graduated from Yale, where he belonged to Skull and Bones; while in Viet Nam he won a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Kerry appeared on NBC's Meet the Press early last week and later before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Some of his rhetoric was exggerated and irrational, but there was no arguing with the conviction with which he spoke...
...will have marching with us mothers of prisoners of war, mothers of soldiers who have been killed, wives of soldiers who have been killed. We will have Marines coming here, men with no legs, with Navy Crosses, Silver Stars, Purple Hearts, 100% disabled. They are coming here to say to the people of this country, "We have lost our sons, we have lost our husbands. I lost my leg. But the important thing is not that this has happened. Let's not keep killing people to justify my loss. Let's not glorify the dead...
...women who hold them. Over and over, the worshippers sitting on cushions around the floor sing to the accompaniment of three guitars a hymn that stresses the unity of the members of the Church. At one end of the room, hung on a deep purple drape, is a silver cross; at the other end, over a black curtain, is a red representation of the horned goat of Mendes, a symbol of Satan...
...each instance, the high poetic music of the play has been jangled and the nature of Othello obscured. While Othello sometimes speaks with direct and simple beauty ("Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"), he often cloaks himself in more ornamental phraseology, and this silver rhetoric is lost on tongues of clay...