Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water and citronella (the refugees had been settled elsewhere), on through the jumbled slums where Pakistani women, their pastel veils and head scarves fluttering in the sun, watched from roof tops. At Victoria Road, the two Presidents switched to a stately carriage drawn by six handsome horses. Under a gold-trimmed, brocaded red sun umbrella, Ike sat and waved, raised his hands to the crowds, and 60 colorfully garbed horsemen, former Bengal Lancers, trooped along with him carrying their traditional lances. When at last Ike alighted at the presidential palace, he turned in wonder to a flock of news photographers...
...Aspen, Colo., young (23) Buddy Werner, the U.S.'s best skier, crossed his skis, breaking his leg and the hearts of U.S. ski enthusiasts, who had counted on him to snap Europe's long dominance of the sport, take the U.S.'s first-ever gold medal in the men's events at the 1960 Winter Olympics, scheduled for Squaw Valley, Calif, this February...
...buyers bought up everything they could get their hands on, but they showed a penchant for luxury goods, ranging from Tiffany & Co.'s gold martini mixer ($2,000) and Black, Starr & Gorham's gold tea set ($30,000) to Lord & Taylor's Hong Kong silk lounging pajamas ($79.95) and gold-plated toothbrushes ($5). "Anything with a gimmick sells very well," said Dominic Tampone, president of Manhattan's Hammacher Schlemmer: "This always happens in a high economy. You give a person something he wouldn't normally buy for himself...
...students who lived elsewhere, many were poor and lived wretchedly in isolated cold-water flats, blocks or miles from the University. The greatest disparity was between these and the fortunate few--the rich and the "clubbies"--who maintained luxurious private dormitories on the "Gold Coast" of Mount Auburn street. For all but the "Gold Coasters," who ate in their own dormitories, the meal situation was nearly intolerable...
Surprisingly enough, undergraduates were generally displeased with the plan. The "clubbies" and "Gold Coasters" reputedly shuddered at the thought of mixing with the majority; the CRIMSON attacked the proposal as arbitrary and disrupting; the students living in the Yard feared such a change would leave them disoriented...