Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...traditional and somewhat theatrical custom of clergymen opening or closing a political convention was carried on at Los. Angeles and Chicago, among others by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Roman Catholic Bishop Hillinger, and Rabbi Hillel Silver. The familiar scene inevitably raises a question: Should different denominations of Christians pray together-or alongside members of other faiths-and if so, under what circumstances...
...minded urge to get things done. At Pearl Harbor in 1941, his patrol squadron was one of the few loaded with bombs and ready to fight back against the Japanese. He was executive officer of the aircraft carrier Hancock when she was blasted by a Japanese kamikaze, won the Silver Star for getting fires under control and repairing the flight deck in time to recover aircraft. As skipper of the carrier Bennington in 1954. he took over damage control when a catapult exploded and killed 103 men (and earned a Bronze Star...
Less than 24 hours after the U.N. Security Council in Manhattan voted to send troops and aid to the beleaguered Congo, the first silver-bodied, red-tailed Hercules plane whined off the runway of the U.S. Air Station at Chateauroux in southern France. At Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina and at Dover Base in Delaware, ponderous Globemasters lumbered into the air. By last week 132 U.S. transport planes were flying across half the world in the vast United Nations airlift to and from the Congo...
...Deputy whipped out a small submachine gun from under his flowing sports shirt and blasted away. Every light in the district, including the Chehab villa, blinked out - somebody had hit the power line. In a candlelight celebration, the Deputies ceremoniously burned the President's resignation in a silver...
...sent an unsuspecting umpire to the hospital with a stray fastball that popped him flush on the mask, knocked him 18 ft., chest pad over whisk broom. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., in 1958, Dalkowski pitched a one-hitter and lost, 9 to 8. Against Reno's Silver Sox this summer, he whiffed 19, still lost...