Word: hues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University got a taste of the fruit that this strategy bears when Associate Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai indicated Friday that she, unlike the two outside scholars wooed last week, will probably accept Harvard's tenure offer. An expert in Vietnamese history, Hue-Tam Ho Tai received her Ph.D. from Harvard...
SOME miscalculating psychiatrists performed a series of tests in the 1960s to discover which hue of color relieved feelings of fear and anxiety. After the study found that students would feel "more comfortable" if their exam books were a soft, pale blue, universities and high schools began to buy the now infamous "blue books...
...year. Amid the cacophony, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second-largest city, and seven other major towns, breaking the Tet truce. Within 24 hours they hit 36 of 44 provincial capitals and overran almost all of the former colonial capital of Hue. Communist shock troops penetrated the heart of Saigon to attack the U.S. embassy and presidential palace. They drove General William Westmoreland into a windowless command bunker. "What the hell is going on?" Walter Cronkite wondered aloud as he prepared the evening's newscast. "I thought we were winning this...
...Florida 17% of all motorists are 65 and over, and an astonishing 22,268 are 90 or over. In the wealthier districts of metropolises, like Tampa-St. Petersburg and Miami, the profusion of elderly drivers has acquired an unkind nickname: the "cataracts and Cadillacs" syndrome. In 1982 a public hue and cry arose over the driving record of an 81-year-old Miami Beach woman who surrendered her license after a 39-month streak during which she struck eleven people, killing three and critically injuring five...
...high grades, solid recommendations and documented achievements. "Seems to me the only thing you haven't done is paint your room Duke blue," she mused, alluding to the school color. Soon thereafter the photo arrived -- of the smiling applicant, brush in hand, apparently painting her bedroom a deep lapis hue. Needless to say, Tangora is now a Duke student...