Word: silvers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate of roughly 800 words a day, no longer betrays the traces of his working routine, mounting piles of typescript scattered about the floor. But on a mantelpiece in this room rests an intriguing souvenir of Rushdie's past: a beautifully bound octagonal miniature, roughly the size of a silver dollar, of the Koran...
When Sony Chairman Akio Morita unveiled in 1981 a prototype of the first camera to capture images on electronic sensors rather than on film, he billed it the greatest breakthrough since Daguerre's silver-coated copper photographic plate. With Sony's still-video camera, photographers could instantly display their snapshots on ordinary TV screens. But when it finally came out in 1987 with a price tag of about $7,000, the product did not exactly overwhelm the marketplace. Except in a few specialized applications in business and journalism, the filmless camera virtually disappeared...
...going to be one of the hardest games for us mentally and physically," Lind said. "They're not going to hand us the Ivy Championships on a silver platter...
Pleasantly handsome, piercingly intelligent, he was a master manipulator, a silver-tongued charmer who lured women to their deaths, confounded police pursuers and clogged the court system for nearly a decade. Last week, when Ted Bundy was finally strapped into Florida's electric chair and jolted with 2,000 volts of electricity, he paid with his life for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of Kimberly Leach, a twelve-year-old Lake City girl. But if his last-minute confessions prove to be true, the former law student may have killed as many as 50 young women in Utah, Washington, Idaho...
...partnership allowed Brown to live in the manner to which he wanted to become accustomed. He sports Hermes silk ties accented with a silver collar pin, well-tailored suits and monogrammed shirts with French cuffs. He and Alma live in a new four-bedroom town house just west of Washington's Rock Creek Park, with a sleek black Jaguar in the driveway. Their son Michael is a law student at the University of Delaware; daughter Tracy is a senior at Boston College...