Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like you were being told an off-color joke in front of your mother," David J. Schraa, assistant senior tutor in Kirkland House, said Saturday. "Though there were a lot of absurdities in the '60s, there was something about his leering tone that was distasteful," he added...
...numbers are growing so rapidly that Young and Rubicam, the ad agency, predicts that almost one of three TV households will be on cable by 1981. Says Vice President William Donnelly: "Thirty percent is the magic number that made regular TV a mass medium and that later made color matter to advertisers." After reaching that point, cable would have a potential for further fast expansion. By industry count, TV cables (made of copper wire wrapped in plastic foam and an outer layer of aluminum) have been strung past just about half of all the TV homes in the U.S. Cable...
...mulch mixture keeps the seeds moist and warm and also reduces the risk of seed loss in heavy rains, Gray said. He added that the seeds germinate faster in the mulch. The green color is added to help workers distinguish areas already seeded...
...loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession... You have taught us more than anyone I know how wrong it is not to mix it with emotion, hunger, desire, lust, whims, caprices, personal ties, deeper relationships that change its color, flavor, rhythms, intensities...
There is no substitute for the agent in the field to provide reporting on the intentions of foreign nations. "You can photograph and intercept all the messages that ultrasophisticated technology allows," says a West German expert. "But these cannot provide the sense of a place, the smell, sound and color that can tell so much." Because of declining morale and fear of leaks, CIA networks overseas have broken down. The agent who works abroad is often on his own. Says Jack Maury, onetime CIA chief of Soviet operations: "You can't just give orders from the top and expect...