Word: clothes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spiritual spectacles buried with them; the spectacles consisted of two stones called Urim and Thummin set in silver bows. No one but Joseph ever actually saw the golden tablets-he explained that it was instant death for anyone else to see them, and he kept them covered with a cloth or locked in a box whose hiding place he changed frequently. He deciphered them behind a screen, from which he dictated the Book of Mormon...
...liberator of Africa," cracked an aide as Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroo-mah) poked his lathered dusky face out of a Blair House bathroom. Laughing lustily, the irrepressible Prime Minister of Ghana (pop. 4,800,000) finished his shave, draped on one of his $300 tribal robes of kente cloth, plunged into three days of red-carpet treatment in Washington. Fresh from a dignified state visit in Canada, he carefully controlled the spellbinding flamboyance that made him the "show boy" hero of the Dark Continent, but his warm humor hid just under the surface of his talk about somber problems...
...White House got a vicuña coat? Adams: "Well, now, let's get the thing on the record. My superior officer at the White House never received a coat from this gentleman." (But Press Secretary Jim Hagerty stated that Ike did receive some vicuña cloth from Goldfine in 1956, gave it to a friend...
Through the years, as Bernard Goldfine gave, Adams received. Without seeming to recognize the implications of his relationship, Adams took advantage of Goldfine's offer of a rug, a few mats, a coat, some cloth that he had made into a suit. The hotel rooms were a great convenience, and so were the dining facilities at the hotels. These gifts were hard to refuse, partly because of friendship, partly because, as a careful man with his own dollar, Adams could not bring himself to refuse the lavish insistence of a big spender. And when Bernie Goldfine asked Adams...
Sharing the Wealth. Goldfine's quick hand with cash became so famous last week that House investigators pricked up their ears when they heard that his mills had sold the U.S. Army $2,255,000 worth of cloth in the last five years for uniform shirts and pants. (Also: $42,651 for green pool-table cloth, presumably used to cover Navy mess tables.) At the same time the investigators were asking Goldfine to bring to the committee, when he appears next week, some $770,000 in uncashed cashier's checks that they learned about from study...