Word: hues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latter part of 1967. His working conditions were ideal-no real deadlines, the freedom to travel wherever military transport would take him-and his timing was fortuitous. His year in the country coincided with some of the war's fiercest struggles-Tet and the battle for Hue, the siege at Khe Sanh and the Viet Cong's May 1968 Saigon offensive. Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere on the periphery of that total Viet...
This has got to be the easiest kind of story in the world to write, a color piece on a football game where every shade and hue was painted from the palette of one man, one artist...
...golden hue...
...banking industry's worries about the Lance affair. As Comptroller of the Currency John Heimann declared in his report last month, the OMB director's finances raised "unresolved questions as to what constitutes acceptable banking practice." Bankers fear that congressional reformers will seize on the nationwide hue and cry over Lance to resolve those questions by further tightening of federal banking laws...
...theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they can also be funny.) Apart from the possible permutations, the socks come in just about every hue and mix and material imaginable. Some striped jobs look like pousse-café or rugby sweaters gone south; others come in cable knits and heathery cottons. There are jacquard knits, woolens in every shade from bubble-gum pink to moonstone gray and Lurex numbers aglitter with specks of gold and silver...