Word: amber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many motorists, the amber traffic signal is more a challenge than a warning: instead of slowing down, they speed up, trying to beat the light before it changes. It is a hazardous practice, since there is no way of knowing precisely when the light will turn...
...Tonight," she sings, "tonight won't be like any night." And the audience, basking in reverie and a second brandy, believes her. Svelte in a glittering, hip-hugging gown, her generously exposed bosom gently heaving, she moves like a vision in a halo of amber light. "You'd be so nice to come home to," she purrs, and the menfolk are hooked. Now she is happy, now she is blue, and so, alternately, is the audience. They can hardly help it. It all seems so sincere, so spontaneous, so terribly special...
...outer space." It is to make sure that this does not happen that Johnson all week -in public and in private, over telephone and microphone-exhorted everyone from housewife to Governor, labor leader to corporation head, to fight off inflation by clamping a tight rein on his spending. "The amber light is on," he warned. "We must see that some restraint is applied...
...full of helium," and businessmen in whom he places trust assured him that inflation was not a real threat. "The favorite American pastime is worry," Johnson told a group of White House fellows when the talk turned to inflation. "It's their favorite jag." But the light turned amber-and Johnson called for an application of the brakes-when he got a look last week at a fresh stream of statistics that showed that inflation, if nothing to get panicky about yet, is certainly something to be dealt with...
...biggest community beer bash, the 16-day Oktoberfest. Dating from the come-everybody wedding reception 155 years ago of Bavaria's Crown Prince Ludwig, Oktoberfest today is an excuse for games, gourmandising and, among Bavarians, whose per capita annual beer consumption is 218 quarts, for quaffing the amber Märzenbier.* Seven big beer tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions...