Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This color coding has not worked, since it is easy for a bandit with artistic bent to repaint his model gun to give it a menacing steel blue glower. Typical was the incident last July when a real robber brandishing a fake black Colt .38 held up a real Kyoto bank van carrying checks worth 50 million in real yen. That was the equivalent of 263,158 real dollars, which are fake nowadays in Japan anyway...
...least it seemed that way early in the night, before the Worcester returns popped magically out of the six-foot color screen that served as a tote board, whispering to those in the crowd who knew what they were doing that maybe this fellow King wasn'g going to lose after all. Before that happened--before the well-meaning crowd of mourners that had gathered to give their friend a good Irish wake had been so rudely interrupted by the sight of the corpse singing and dancing and leading the cheers--the party at Anthony's had been a pleasant...
Worcester changed that. The tallies flashed onto that big color screen--a neat electronic reminder that this game they call politics isn't so different from all the other games you've watched on a big screen, peering through the cigar smoke and hollering at every score--and then the cheers erupted. But they weren't cheers. Screams would be the better word, or maybe squeals: the sheer delight of a naughty five-year-old who wakes up on Christmas morning to find not the threatened lump of coal, but a shiny toy truck in his stocking. Sweet Mother...
...year. The risk of dying as a result of an automobile accident is 75,000 times as high. Nor does radiation now appear to be an unreasonable risk. Coal-fired plants actually emit slightly more radiation than nuclear reactors. Americans are already exposed to radiation from natural sources, color television and medical X rays. Routine operation of nuclear plants would add almost nothing to this exposure. In fact, a person living next door to a nuclear reactor in, say, New York, is exposed to less radiation than someone who lives in mile-high Denver...
...Elvis's grave, at the side of his mansion, near his kidney-shaped swimming pool. Along the line volunteers from a county rescue team patrolled, watching for victims of heat exhaustion. And hawkers patrolled, too, selling everything from autographed pictures of The King to silk scarves he wore to color film. Across the street--Elvis Presley Boulevard--there was still more. The shops that have sprung up in the past year sell everything from Elvis wastebaskets to Elvis swizzle sticks to ceramic guitars with Elvis's picture on them. And they do a brisk business, like the local florists...