Word: marooned
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Carter, flaunting a luxuriant red beard and one of his normally outlandish outfits--purple beret, electric blue and yellow sweater, khaki pants with large patches of turquoise, maroon and purple, as well as green poles with orange Day-Glo baskets--slithered through the 550-foot course with the best times for each of the two runs, and defeated runnerup David Dodge of the University of Vermont by over a second. Ben Steele, star of Carter's intercollegiate team, remained off the peak he reached winning EIS championships three weeks ago at Middlebury and finished third. Dodge finished fourth...
...everyone is waiting for the boring annual office party to begin. Long lines of Marines stood listlessly on the tarmac waiting to board C-130s for transfer home. Huddled in the shade by the sprawling base terminal building was a curious sight-five North Vietnamese P.O.W.s dressed in the maroon pajamas that are standard issue for prisoners. They were left virtually unguarded because all were amputees. Their first destination was a camp at nearby Long Binh. Within 60 days, they presumably will be back home in North Viet...
...down at her work, unconsciously picking up her speed. One of the Americans stops and admires Shiao Mei's hands in action, but Shiao Mei does not look up. Soon the American moves on, pausing ten rows up in admire the hands of one of the girls that sew maroon buttons on maroon shirts...
...summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition of Ruskin's Unto This Last, small as a wallet, the cardboard covers exposed like a dilapidated wall; d'Annuzio's poems (1901), elegant in a spine of maroon ribbed leather; Edmund Gosse's life of Coventry Patmore, also a first edition; Arthur Symons' London: A Book of Aspects, "privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and his friends" in Minneapolis (1908), in which the pages remain brittle as parchment; and a Bohn's Standard Library Edition of Eckermann's Conversations...
...around athlete. After graduating from the University of Kansas, where he held an NROTC scholarship, he won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. Subsequently he flew 100 carrier missions off Indochina and became the first Viet Nam veteran in the astronaut ranks. A modish dresser (typical garb: white slacks, maroon sports jacket, pink tie and shirt), he is married and the father of two children: a daughter, 13, and a son, 11. As pilot of the command ship America, he will remain in orbit around the moon while Schmitt and Cernan explore the lunar surface. Unlike earlier command pilots, he will...