Word: silver
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Catalano said glare in the window prevented the graduate student from providing a detailed description of the perpetrator, other than that he was wearing a shiny silver or gray winter coat with a hood tied tightly around his face...
...front of the room, under a hanging portrait of the god Shiva that Eck borrowed from the Fogg Museum, the students set up an altar to display silver figures of the three gods most associated with the festival—Lakshmi, Sarasvati and Durga—as well as candles, fresh flowers and plates of nuts...
...campaign quickly changed gears. Kerry and his aides set to work furiously, turning what was supposed to be a speech the next day on homeland security into a good old-fashioned counterpunch. "Thirty years ago, official Navy reports ... documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts. Thirty years ago, this was the plain truth. It still is, and I still carry the shrapnel in my leg," he would declare. "I'm not going to let anyone question my commitment to defending America--then, now or ever." After drafting the speech...
...DIED. THEODORE TAYLOR, 79, theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the cold war who specialized in designing smaller, more powerful atom bombs - and then became a fierce antinuclear campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...
While she was prohibited from competing for the Crimson, she was allowed to participate in training with the team, and took part in outside competitions, earning a silver medal in the Pan American games and winning the national championship in the 200-meter butterfly...