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Word: silver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upon returning home at 6 p.m., the couple said they discovered that a target revolver, a Nikon camera, jewelry, sterling silver and other items were all missing from their bedroom...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Police Arrest Two Suspects In 'Pipe Wrench' Burglaries | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

...velvet, or parade on polished marble in front of elegant settees. But more and more, as Bachrach says, "The upper middle class kids are turning away from wanting formal portraits. They want only candids and stainless steel. It is the ethnic groups who now want the formal portraits and silver." One class aspires to the values of another and imitates them, changing the symbols they adopt even as they acquire them...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Scenes from a Wedding | 3/24/1976 | See Source »

...returned to America, still an unknown, and carved her name into more small books of poetry. Seventh Heaven began with a lot of lesbian imagery. Then came another silver of a tome, this one more heterosexual bent. She hated her female body from the beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

Comin in all directions, white', shinin', silver studs with their noses all in flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

Suddenly the music stops. It is 2 a.m., and out of nowhere materialized uniformed policemen, plaid-jacketed plainclothesmen, and a searchlight the size of a cannon. The disc-jockey abandons his notorious sound system to steer the bright beam over the crowd. The silver-studded dancers break apart like mercury and slither sullenly towards the exit. There is a twenty minute wait for coats;the boy with the orange cape has donned less auspicious clothing and bustles about the cloakroom, calling out numbers, grabbing tickets, rolling his eyes...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: The Half-hearted Hustle | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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