Word: marooning
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...Wearing maroon pajamas and a navy-blue silk robe, the President was bustled out of the White House shortly before 2:30 one morning, 14 hours after he took the oath, helped into a Navy ambulance and whisked off to Bethesda Naval Hospital. He was suffering from a heavy cough and chest pains. Since he had suffered a nearfatal heart attack ten years ago, he was worried. But by midmorning, the President's doctor announced that nothing serious ailed him-little more than a case of too much inauguration...
Disneyland Chevrons. Noland rarely paints smaller than 4 ft. by 4 ft. Yet he does not want machinelike perfection. "I'm a one-shot painter," he says, and in his Bridge he deliberately left the splatter of orange on yellow. Noland dares to parallel magenta, russet, beige and maroon in a lollipop war of taste. Sometimes he rams and jams his bright color bands into asymmetrical chevrons like a Disneyland sergeant gone askew...
...second highest level of all Masonry. Only 32nd-degree Masons or Knights Templar are eligible -though admittedly their degree can be attained, if a man puts his mind to study, in a matter of months. The Shriners' caste mark, worn proudly if sometimes absurdly, is a maroon felt hat that can conceal but does little else for a shiny bald head...
...income hovers around $200,000 a year. The total earnings of his horses passed $13 million last week, and this year he became one of the 15 winningest jockeys of all time. When he's not driving his gold '64 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, he drives his maroon '64 Coupe de Ville Caddy. He has two homes, one on Long Island and one in Palm Springs, Fla., where he lives with his wife and two children. And his stock portfolio numbers such blue chips as A. T. & T. and Reynolds Tobacco...
...short, slight Spaniard stepped from the plane at Tijuana, wearing dark glasses and a grey suede jacket, his brown hair sprouting like hay from beneath a maroon-banded straw...