Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They met at the Union Station for the midnight train to Monarch. All of them . . . displayed celluloid buttons the size of dollars and lettered, "We zoom for Zenith." The official delegates were magnificent with silver and magenta ribbons...
...Soviet standards, the career of new Politburo Member Konstantin Chernenko, 67, has zoomed upward meteorically. A husky, silver-haired bureaucrat, Chernenko has for years served in effect as Brezhnev's chief of staff and virtual alter ego. He is a member of the so-called Moldavian Clan, the group of Soviet apparatchiks who hitched their careers to Brezhnev's when he served as first secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party in the early '50s. Chernenko headed the Moldavian party's propaganda department. After Brezhnev succeeded Nikita Khrushchev as party chief in 1964, his protege first became...
...heart of the hubbub is a thin, badly worn and chipped silver disc about the size of a dime. On one side, it is stamped with a cross; on the other, with a stylized animal head. Found in 1961 by an amateur archaeologist named Guy Mellgren, the coin was turned over Animal head to the Maine State Museum in Augusta four years ago and described as a 12th century English coin. But Riley Sunderland, a retired military historian and also an amateur archaeologist, had his doubts about that identification. While vacationing in England last summer, he discussed the coin with...
...each. In many department stores, the Clinique counter resembles a laboratory, where the saleswomen wear white uniforms and products are packaged in antiseptic green. On the counter sits a computer-like box that asks the customer eight questions about her complexion, which she answers by moving silver knobs. The answers are supposed to determine her skin type and thus the right group of Clinique cleansers, moisturizers and creams for her. Or him. Two years ago, Clinique started to market a full line...
There were three tables in the hall. On the chief table was a well built ship with sails spread, and before it sway a silver swan drawing the ship with a silver chair. At one end of the ship was richly built castle. Among the numerous ornaments was a church with cross, chimes and four singers. There was besides a beautiful fountain surrounded with cliffs of sapphire and other rare stones. Twenty living musicians played inside a huge pastry--a castle in the form of that of Lusignan. In an uninhabited desert a lifelike tiger fought with a great serpant...