Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the mediocrity of most performances, there were a few bright spots. Dave Silver was the winner in the optional one-meter diving with 236.20 points on five dives. His nearest competitor was Brown's Rick Wiley with 145.15. Brown has no three-meter board on which to practice, so there can be no competition from the high board in its meets...
...miles outside of Helsinki at a place called Jarvenpaa. which means "Lake's End." One can go out from the capital by a little train in about an hour, or by motor car in less. His villa is built of logs and stands on a knoll among pines and silver birches overlooking the lake to the westward. At the foot of this knoll but still in the grove is an assemblage of heavy out-of-door wooden chairs around a table, all of them painted white, and down here one sunny afternoon late in August Mme. Sibelius had the coffee...
...fakes pregnancy (with the help of a pillow) to get on welfare. She does not succeed, though, because the case-worker who comes to call is enamored of her silver shoes ("Just like the shoes Joan Crawford always wore!") to the extent that he will not put her on the dole list unless she gives them to him. She will not. Bribing welfare workers to get the money she rightfully deserves is a violation of her principles...
...Silver City Sno-Birds Oneida...
Every presidency develops its own trappings of status. Under Richard Nixon, the favored few who travel on Air Force One cherish their blue, Air Force special issue flight jackets emblazoned with the presidential seal and personal silver-and-black name tags. All the President's top aides-Henry Kissinger, John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman-wear them aboard. Even Nixon's personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, suits...