Word: ocher
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capital in 1990 when it gets past 1984. From the plane, a fabulous fiery sunset over the estuary of the Rio de la Plata, lights coming on in Uruguay and Argentina on either side of the river. Another sunset, seen from sea level, the eye drawn up walls of ocher, rust and dusty rose to the snow fields on the crest of the Chilean Andes. Everywhere, people of charm, energy, talent, incorrigibly attracted to non-Anglo-Saxon forms of government...
...This is a march of 350,000 people, but it is really ideas that are marching," Morocco's King Hassan II told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager last week in his ocher palace in Marrakech. One of the ideas on the march might well be the old notion that the shortest route to enhanced power is through a neighboring country's land. In his determination to annex the phosphate-rich Spanish colony, King Hassan has ignored an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that denied Morocco's claim of outright sovereignty over the Sahara. Spain, after...
...about him. As letters went back and forth, Kung resisted summonses to Rome for questioning unless he could get open hearings and what he considers "due process." After his final refusal last September, 26 Vatican theologians and administrators began meeting regularly to discuss his case in the gray-and-ocher palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
...from a Theme from 1946 (1967), the five main colors make their appearance in turn: first a stripe of blue pushing out the black at the top, then a lavender stripe displacing the blue at the left, then a red behind the lavender at the bottom and finally an ocher displacing the red band on the right...
...face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair to deter a tusker's charge, he stepped out to meet the warriors in a Masai village. Recognizing Bobby right away as a brother, the ocher-smeared men shared a gourd of ox blood and milk with him. But he may have to do something about his hair. "The Masai men have elaborate hair styles molded with mud and ocher," explained long-haired Bobby. "They kept fingering my hair to see if it was real...