Word: gold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of funny how scores can be deceptive. For example, the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team played an exhibition game against the Soviet Union and took a 10-1 pounding. Weeks later it stunned the world by beating those same Ruskies and winning the gold medal...
...44th voyage carrying passengers and gold from Panama to New York, the S.S. Central America ran into a killer hurricane and sank in 8,000 ft. of water 200 miles off the South Carolina coast. On board were an estimated 77,000 ounces of gold bullion worth at least $28 million today. Last week a salvage syndicate that located the wreck two years ago began recovering what engineer Thomas Thompson, 37, said was "like the classic sunken treasures you read about as a kid. It is like a garden of gold growing from the bottom and hanging from beams...
Adopting this new attitude is necessary if ideals are to be radically transformed, so that books, for example, can be seen to be more important than any status gotten from the stereotypical gold chains...
...never shared these treasonous thoughts with any of my Skins-loving friends. I assumed my fears would dissipate and I could return to my knee-jerk support for the burgundy and gold...
...many social evenings lying on somebody's living- room rug, staring at the ceiling and saying, "Oh, wow!" This renunciation was not a wrenching moral decision, but rather an aesthetic rite of passage as my palate began to savor California Chardonnay with the avidity I once reserved for Acapulco Gold. Yet as an aging baby boomer, my attitudes remain emblematic of that high-times generation that once freely used soft drugs and still feels more nostalgic than repentant about the experience...