Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming, or at least I thought so. After all, Time featured the school on its cover that fall for the 350th anniversary. Other magazines wrote mysteriously about the "Harvard Factor." Famous people like David Brinkley's son taught there. Half of Reagan's cabinet were Harvard graduates. The Red Sox had all the makings of a future Series winner. The prospects couldn't have looked brighter for any college, and I began shopping early for my doubleweave Harvard sweatshirt...
...loss to Ivy cellar-dweller Cornell caught the Crimson off guard. Freshman Beverly Stickles scored the lone Harvard goal off an assist by Wendy Millet in the final minutes of the game to dash away the Big Red's hopes for a shutout...
FOOD FASHION COLOR Beet red is the shade showing up in a few trend-setting new American boutique restaurants. It is valued primarily by chefs for its color, even though the beet's earthy flavor is anathema to many customers. In some places beets can't be given away, according to one chef in Dallas. However, they are glossing (and hopelessly muffling) ingredients such as lobster and ice cream at Rakel, and are adding heft to rabbit salad and halibut at Bouley, both in New York City...
...said later. "The car behind me was engulfed in flames, and houses were suddenly on fire, as if petrol had been sprayed over them. It was an incredible inferno." Recalled truck driver John McGuinness: "I'm sure the plane was on fire before it crashed. It looked like a red sunset...
BOEING. Nearly every day, a silvery aluminum-skinned Boeing airliner rolls out of one of the company's four giant hangars in suburban Seattle and is sprayed with the colors of its new owner: red and blue for American, yellow and blue for Lufthansa, emerald green for Aer Lingus. The world's largest aircraft manufacturer (a record $29 billion in orders this year, up from $20 billion in 1987) is stepping up production, from 25 jetliners a month...