Word: silver
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...officers from making "contemptuous" remarks about the President or other senior government officials, Campbell could face court-martial, one year in prison and loss of $66,000 a year in retirement pay. However, the White House seemed disinclined to get into a scrape with a man who won the Silver Star in Vietnam...
Drury never fails to find the silver lining of a situation, according to his teammate, "Lots of little negatives can snowball over the course of a season, but Ted would never let that happen," senior Steve Flomenhoft remarks. "He really helped create a friendly, family-type atmosphere in the locker room...
Indeed, students may best know Kennedy as a silver-tongued voice of the campus left. Remarkably well-spoken and instantaneously witty, Kennedy may be the toughest debate opponent at Harvard--whether in sanctioned competition or over chickwiches in the dining hall...
...decades, their first winner is obliged to take them on tours of Air Force One. The White House chief of staff would be crazy not to take calls from David Geffen, the producer; he donated $120,000 last year. (On the other hand, jokes the actor and activist Ron Silver, "Why anyone would want to talk to Mack McLarty is beyond...
...professor of international politics at Tokyo's Sophia University, believes the selection of Owada is an indication that the royal family wants to move forward. Its members are often seen as prisoners of the Imperial Household Agency, a 1,132-person bureaucracy that controls everything from rigid security to silver service to press interviews (almost none). It is hard for an outsider to adapt to such a sequestered life. Michiko, the present Empress, who married Emperor Akihito in 1959, is, like Owada, a commoner. She broke ground by insisting on certain innovations, such as raising her children ) herself. She suffered...