Word: lazuli
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...dollar shortage, they said, had penetrated even into their forbidden city of Lhasa, which badly needs plows and sickles. To get them, Tibet wants to send the U.S. a list of oddities (e.g., lapis lazuli, musk, leopard skins) topped by 100,000 yak* tails. It happens that the U.S. is now suffering from a war-born shortage of yak tails, which can't be beat for making wigs and Santa Claus beards. U.S. wigmakers will probably grab them up fast...
...year-old "mad genius," slight and nervous looking, who preferred riches (his forgeries earned him $3,024,000) to fame, had avoided detection by meticulous adherence to 17th-Century materials and techniques. Some of his paints were purchased in London, others he made himself, grinding up genuine lapis lazuli for his blues, and cochineal for his reds...
Cambridge ought to have silver streets "with mother of pearl borders and platinum edgestones, inlaid with opals and lapis lazuli" declared a weekend bulletin of the Cambridge Taxpayers Association which decried the amount of money borrowed by this city for road construction...
...University of Chicago, and the university's Rockefeller-endowed Oriental Institute started digging there in 1925. The diggers found the palace of the Egyptian princes with a gaudily painted court and a washroom paved with seashells; a rich hoard of art objects in gold, ivory, lapis lazuli and electrum (gold-silver alloy); an inscription of the Pharaoh Shishak who plundered Jerusalem; and stables built by King Solomon large enough to house 300 horses...
...buried in graves lined by mud bricks. In these tombs were rosettes and beads of gold (the most ancient fabricated gold ever discovered) ; weapons, seals, vessels of obsidian; a wolf's head of electrum (gold & silver alloy); shell beads and such semiprecious stones as carnelian, turquoise and lapis lazuli. One tomb contained 25,000 beads which the diggers assumed were once part of a single beadwork jacket...