Word: hue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrea Rander's husband Donald, then an Army sergeant first class, was captured in Hue during Tet 1968 and taken to Hanoi. She raised their children alone for five years. A few weeks before he returned, a reporter interviewed her at home in Maryland. The reporter left uneventfully, then the telephone rang. "I forgot one question," she remembers him saying. "Do you have any boyfriends, and are you planning to divorce your husband?" Andrea Rander is a petite black woman. Standing beside her husband at a reception sponsored by Braniff Airlines, she glares angrily at me, yet another reporter...
Whifflers find they have to adapt to unusual conditions around Harvard because of cyclical changes of spring. Every year about this time, just when the turf should take on a green hue and provide limitless acreage for whiffleball diamonds, traditions intervene...
...live in shell craters. Even these vulgarities don't match the ones that flashed on our television screens every night for the better part of a decade--the Saigon police chief with his gun to the head of a suspect, Buddhist monks on fire in the streets of Hue, the little napalmed girl running in terror down a rural road. And so Paul Berlin, and one suspects O'Brien too, goes after Cacciato...
...outburst in Denver's Mile High Stadium after the Super Bowl slot had been assured was the peaking of a fever that has raged this fall in the Rockies, leaving all of its victims colored a resonant orange. The team color has banished every other hue from the spectrum in Denver. T shirts, scarves, pins, sweaters, radios, coats, can openers, beer mugs, the hair on otherwise-sane heads and Christmas trees have been dyed to match the Broncos' Orange. Defensive End Lyle Alzado, star of the A.F.C.'s best defensive unit, an indefatigable worker in community projects and perhaps...
...Bard himself, anyone who chats briefly with Mr. Sadow will concur that there are few who can rival his encyclopedial knowledge of Crimson football lore. Sadow is such a devote of Harvard tradition that he disdains wearing a Crimson sweater, opting for what he describes as a bluer hue of red or magenta. Magenta was originally selected as the team color for Harvard on January 24, 1873 before Crimson was later adopted. By the way, the word "glowing" in Sadow's poem should be printed in "purple-crimson...