Word: maroons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pulling out of Sydney's ancient Central Station at 3:15 p.m., the Indian-Pacific glides through a suburban sea of red tile roofs and manicured backyards planted with lemon and orange trees, past platforms packed with schoolgirls in turquoise tunics and schoolboys in maroon blazers. Aboard are 144 passengers, the train's capacity. They are young backpackers headed west, retired couples on an endless vacation, students, and an assortment of tourists...
Favored colors are red or maroon and navy blue, dark or pale green, and basic black. White predominates in several hues-stark, off-and creamy-a careless nose thumbing at practicality. The message, explains Los Angeles Designer Marilyn Lewis ("Cardinali") is: "I'm not working. I'm disporting myself with physical pleasure because I have the leisure...
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...