Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spoiled. The world is so simple to live in today, and we students have no challenges to face. Students who are spoiled in this way do not wish to work within any system, so they protest and expect what they demand to be handed to them on a silver platter. The colleges are in a sad state when they do not expel students who burn everything from flags to buildings, strike the classes and disrupt the learning process...
...senior Senator from Maine. Now 72, Margaret Chase Smith travels the Senate corridors on a motorized golf cart, or she uses a walking cane. But she remains among the most thoughtful and respected members of the Senate, her rose in place, her bearing erect, her hair lustrously silver. Last week, precisely two decades to the day of her anti-McCarthy speech, she stood in the Senate chamber, again making an eloquent and pointed appeal to the forces of moderation. Excerpts...
...years ago, when the tiny (720 sq. mi.) Indian Ocean island won independence from Britain, one might have got the idea that it was serving as a model for a less elevated region. Ringed by silver sands and azure waters, dotted with scarlet flame trees and emerald sugar plantations, it was suffering nonetheless from economic stagnation, staggering unemployment and mounting racial tensions. At least 24 people died in savage riots just before the independence ceremonies, and Britain had to fly in troops from Singapore to restore order...
Spic and Span. As ever, Wolfe prefers fangs to hatchets. "The Panther women are trucking on into the Bernsteins' Chinese yellow duplex, amid the sconces, silver bowls full of white and lavender anemones, and uniformed servants serving drinks and Roquefort cheese morsels rolled in crushed nuts." Then down come the incisors. "But it's all right. They're white servants, not Claude and Maud, but South Americans. Obviously, if you are giving a party for the Black Panthers . . . you can't have a Negro butler and maid." But then Felicia Bernstein (Felicia Montealegre that...
...popularity and urgency of the environmental issue, the garden-club members still worry that they have not shaken their old image. "I suppose," sighed one silver-haired delegate from Louisiana, "that they are going to call us all little old dowagers in tennis shoes, puttering around in our gardens." Said another: "They always used to call us petunia pickers. I wonder what they call...