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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then cut down on the cost of printing so many $1 bills, still has more than half of the deuces on hand. One idea is to eliminate the $1 bill by replacing it with a coin. Then the $2 bill would become a welcome relief from the load of silver people would need every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Undesirable Deuce | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...Shirley Babashoff: any young American who wins four silver medals (or even competes) in the premier sports event in the world is certainly not a "loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection? | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...presidential campaign against the Democratic populist, William Jennings Bryan ("You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"). By issuing a lot of persuasive campaign broadsides, translated into several languages for immigrants, Hanna convinced laborers as well as businessmen that Bryan's demand for the free coinage of silver would devalue the dollar. Sound money, Hanna sloganeered, would guarantee everyone a "full dinner pail." McKinley's landslide assured Republican domination during most of the first third of the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: THE PLIGHT OF THE G.O.P. | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

After getting out of jail in 1971, Roselli again supervised the Chicago Mob's gambling interests in Las Vegas, while living quietly with his sister, Mrs. Joseph Daigle, in Plantation, Fla., just west of Fort Lauderdale. He was, his neighbors said, a nice, silver-haired gentleman who liked to walk his poodle and talk about such local worries as the caterpillars. Although he had arthritis of the spine, he played golf regularly. After another local underworld character was killed recently on the links, Roselli took the precaution of never playing the same course twice in a row. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Deep Six for Johnny | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...words of a Washington fashion setter who was in Paris last week, "Aren't I simply devastatingly dazzling!" It is not, at from $2,000 to $10,000 per outfit, for humble folks. Saint Laurent has used with theatrical abandon the old luxurious, tactile fabrics: satin, gold and silver lame, silk faille, velvet, taffeta, chiffon, chenille, mousseline and moire. The materials, fashioned into 106 outfits for Saint Laurent's July 28 showing, bring back blouses with billowing sleeves, bouffant skirts and, yes, soft petticoats, with tight, wasp waistlines defined by cummerbunds, corselets and cinched belts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Let the Costume Ball Begin | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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