He supervised the cleanups and handled the shipments of raw gold which each week went out to San Francisco.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

Angie worth his weight in gold right now, but these users, they sometimes went down fast.

To Decathlon Man Rafer Johnson ( Time cover, Aug. 29 ), whose gold medal in last summer's Olympic Games was won as much on gumption as talent, went the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the outstanding U.S. amateur athlete of 1960.

"... and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen.

The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.

The album spawned hit singles from both Newton-John (" Magic ," No. 1 in the United States, and " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ) and ELO (" I'm Alive ", which went gold, " All Over the World " and " Don't Walk Away ").

Their follow-up album, 1994's Same as It Ever Was, went gold despite minimal airplay and no major hits.

Schliemann went to California in early 1851 and started a bank in Sacramento buying and reselling over a million dollars of gold dust in just six months.

In October 2003, he released his second Christmas album, Harry for the Holidays, which went gold and reached No. 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

A collection of 1950s and 1960s ballads, Only You, went Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic and was certified gold in the United States in March 2004.

After a slow start, his country-flavored hit " Picture " with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales over 5 million.

In 2002, the Saints wore black pants with their white jerseys ( except for the final road game, a 20 – 13 loss in Cincinnati when they went back to the gold pants ), and gold pants with their black jerseys, a gold alternate jersey, and a 1967-style throwback uniform, complete with an accurate 1967-era helmet which featured a larger fleur-de-lis, a darker shade of gold and grey facemasks.

As to the agreement, John V with a Byzantine naval fleet went to Phocaea, paid the ransom demanded of 100, 000 Byzantine gold pieces, and brought Khalil back to Ottoman territory.

He went on to set new world records for the 1, 500 m and the 5, 000 m with just an hour between the races, and take gold medals in the distances in less than two hours at the 1924 Olympics.

He went on to win gold medals in his other three events: the 10, 000 m, sprinting past Guillemot on the final curve and improving his personal best by over a minute, the cross country race, beating Sweden's Eric Backman, and the cross country team event where he helped Heikki Liimatainen and Teodor Koskenniemi defeat the British and Swedish teams.

However, Nurmi returned to coaching three months later and the Finnish distance runners went on take three gold medals, three silvers and a bronze at the Games.

Whereas the previous five Rush albums sold platinum or better, Hold Your Fire only went gold in November 1987, although it managed to peak at number 13 on the Billboard 200.

Women's gold went to Japan in 1964 and again in 1976.

With former Olympic gold medalist Dudley DeGroot as their new head coach, the Redskins went 8 – 2 during the 1945 season.

* The 1980 Winter Olympics are remembered for the Miracle on Ice, where a young United States hockey team defeated the heavily favored Soviet Red Army team and went on to win the gold medal.

Most were perfectly aware of their chance of finding significant amounts of gold were slim to none, and went for the adventure.

Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.

I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

He went prone on his stomach, the better to pursue his examination.

Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.

She went on:

There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.

`` Anyway '', Waddell went on.

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.

When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.

He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

`` This is a horrible way to live '', Wright went on.

The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.

`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.