Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...again to help Ike, never more so than on the first civil rights bill, in l957. Georgia's Russell, in his last great stand for the Old South, softened the measure. But a bill of sorts was passed, the first fissure in a century of racism. L.B.J., wearing his silver-silk suit, which seemed to glow in the dim Senate corridors, knew what he was doing. So did Ike. And so did Russell...
...prepared for this in 1861--indeed, the young adults and the school-room inhabitants were all partaking of a strawberry picnic on the lawn when the swarming began, and hundreds of frantic, tumbling creatures, male and female, dropped out of the sky and into the cucumber sandwiches and the silver cream jugs, scurrying away in attached pairs, drowning in strawberry juice and Orange Pekoe, scrambling across spoons and lace doilies...
...Olympic Committee has decided to pay athletes $15,000 for each gold medal an American wins at the next Olympics, $10,000 for each silver, $7,500 for a bronze and $5,000 for a fourth-place showing. (In the past the committee awarded $2,500 for any top-eight performance...
...Hollywood's presence at the White House is not new either. John F. Kennedy frequently entertained movie stars, and Ronald Reagan was himself a product of the silver screen. Even George Bush in all his preppy awkwardness was known to cavort with Hollywood luminaries once in a while...
Hogue, who has compiled a long arrest record and several aliases, had stockpiled a cache of gold, silver, rubies, opals and more than 100 other precious and non-precious gems and minerals stolen over the last nine months from the museum, police said...