Word: magentas
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...column. Beside them is a drawing of how the parachute opens during each of these first four seconds. In an imperceptibly more alarming color, purple maybe, are the numbers five and six. Farther down are an enflamed red and yellow twelve and fifteen. Furthest down is a deep magenta seventeen...
...seconds to count, two and a half to decide, one and a half to act, and two to be acted upon are a total of 12 of your deep magenta 17 seconds...
Quite apart from your mind, however, your bowels, as your center of gravity, have this extreme feeling of weightfulness. Your body tingles with the speed and your toes want to crawl back upwards away from the deep magenta...
Harvard President Nathan Pusey called it "as festive an occasion as we've had in a long time." Students poured into Harvard Square brandishing banners proclaiming GROPIUS FOR PRESIDENT and THERE'S HOPE WITH GROPE. Orange, green and magenta Gropius buttons blossomed on lapels, and one admirer wrapped himself up in a flame-and-gold package as a "present to Mr. Gropius." Harvard's favorite-son candidate, Architect Walter Gropius, had just returned from an 85th-birthday visit to his native Germany, and his disciples in Cambridge were not to be outdone in their esteem. Said Gropius...
...McGill team was neatly dressed, after the English fashion. Seeing their opponents so nattily attired, the Harvard players were mortified for they wore no special uniform. The players had not felt called upon to indulge in such extravagance. Each man wore dark trousers, a white undershirt, and a magenta handkerchief tied around his head, as was the custom with the Harvard crews...