Word: blue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decals could be seen on family and police cars, on buses and baby carriages. Flags fluttered from the usual poles, of course, but they were also being used in wom en's dress and hat designs. On a New York City subway platform, a man was seen wearing blue trousers, a red-white-and-blue striped belt and a dark blue shirt studded with white stars...
Speeding Insurance. One simple explanation for the outbreak of red, white and blue is that free stickers have been made available in quantity. In February, 18,441,368 copies of Reader's Digest included the little paste-on models. They were so popular that the Digest has since distributed 50 million more, with bulk orders from General Motors, the Department of Defense, Gulf Oil and Chemical Bank & Trust Co. of New York. They, in turn, have handed them out free. The stridently patriotic New York Daily News has-sold half' a million. The Benevolent and Protective Order...
...canyon of incomparable beauty. Red sandstone walls climb 5,300 ft. above 518 verdant acres. Waters cas cade down arching falls and sparkle in terraced pools coated with deposits of travertine. From this flow came the settlers' name. The Havasupai Indians- "people who live by the blue-green water" - occupy, as they have for ten centuries, the floor of Cataract Canyon in Grand Canyon National Park...
Such minor indignities paled once the ceremony was underway. It began with a procession, almost two hours long, of soldiers in their dressiest uniforms, bards dressed in swirling blue-and-green togas, Welsh politicians in robes of office and British officials, including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, KEYSTONE in morning clothes. The royal family itself was rather subdued. Queen Elizabeth, carrying an Edwardian parasol, was done up in pale gold. Prince Philip wore the dark blue, braided uniform of a field marshal. Prince Charles, who waited in the Chamberlain tower until formally summoned by his mother, wore the No. 1 blues...
...panorama filled with prickly plants, grasshoppers and a lazy anteater carrying its baby over a brick wall. Some of the most charming reveries were reserved for the bedroom of the Eluards' five-year-old daughter Cecile, who went to sleep each night amid visions of red-eyed fish, blue horses, hydrocycling ducks and gondolas carrying a giant's foot over limpid waters...