Word: silver
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...collapsed in tears but had a tissue with the word LIFE printed on it: Thioulouse told her she wouldn't die while she was holding it. Five miles across central London, on a train between Liverpool Street and Aldgate, Michael Henning heard the bomb and then saw "lots of silver"--in reality, shards of glass that sliced up the right side of his face while leaving the left side virtually untouched. "I'm still shaking out the glass," he said on his way out of the Royal London Hospital. "I feel very, very lucky. Within 10 feet, two people must...
...year old Russian joke has Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev having a smoke with U.S. President Richard Nixon and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Nixon produces a steel cigarette case inscribed with the words "To our leader, from the GOP." Giscard opens a silver case bearing the simple inlay "To my dear Valery." Brezhnev shrugs and flips open a massive gold case, with the inscription set in diamonds: "To our beloved Czar Nicolas II, from the grateful Russian gentry...
...Russia's mutual profit. However, the morning after this ring-giving, I heard a remake of the 30 year-old Brezhnev joke: Putin, Bush and Chirac meet at a party. Bush shows off his steel ring, inscribed with: "To our leader from the GOP." Chirac sports a silver band, inscribed with the words "To my dear Jacques." Not to be outdone, Putin silently produces a white-gold ring, studded with diamonds shaped to read: "World Champions...
...Charlie gimcracks, which can store money for multiple trips and function much like debit cards, don’t yet work at any other point in the MBTA’s system—including the Silver Line extension to the airport, which opened a month...
...silver lining is our academics abroad,” she said...