Word: scarlets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, when the tiny (720 sq. mi.) Indian Ocean island won independence from Britain, one might have got the idea that it was serving as a model for a less elevated region. Ringed by silver sands and azure waters, dotted with scarlet flame trees and emerald sugar plantations, it was suffering nonetheless from economic stagnation, staggering unemployment and mounting racial tensions. At least 24 people died in savage riots just before the independence ceremonies, and Britain had to fly in troops from Singapore to restore order...
...glory of the Aquarium was here. It was the scarlet shrimp, its little transparent legs regretfully descending to the seabed, its filigree antennae brushing the tubular plants nearby; a miniature, delicate, barely perceptible glass sculpture, shyly animate. He was a tenuously fashioned creature, seemingly held together ?? his good nature and preserved from summary consumption by the sea's deference to his harmless beauty-too small and pure to cause jealousy. He was cheerful, diffident, rubicund, a gloryfish...
...colleagues were taken aback when Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns showed up at a Common Market conference in Luxembourg in his stockinged feet. Red socks at that. Luns explained that his scarlet chaussures were actually a pair of knitted slippers. For sore feet? "No, but these are more comfortable than shoes. It makes me slightly smaller," said the 6-ft. 6-in. diplomat, "and I can think better...
...Gladstone rated Yale and M. I. T. as tough competition, it is hard to tell if either of these teams is even in the same league with Harvard. Earlier in the spring Gladstone rated Rutgers on a per with both the Elis and the Engineers and last week the Scarlet Knights bowed to the Crimson by about seven lengths...
...poor performance of the Scarlet Knights was a surprise. Rutgers has seven athletes back from last year's team which captured second in the Eastern Sprints...