Word: gold-bound
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...Canadian hockey teams, with their scattering of N.H.L. pros, college players and European-league veterans, are scarcely amateur in the classic sense. But in Olympic play, even these hodgepodge squads are dinosaurs on ice. After the Americans' seventh-place finish and the Canadians' drubbing, 5-0, by the gold-bound Soviets, North American hockey officials were dismayed. Sighs Father David Bauer, patriarch of Team Canada: "If the American defense had only been better, it would have done so much for amateur hockey...
...Chase. Last week the Army had the answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
London of the Bank Holiday, Whitmonday, while a gusty wind blew the cold rain down Downing Street. The next day the formal signing, with Churchill's gold-bound pen, took place in Eden's red-leather-chaired room under a bust of the younger Pitt...