Word: tans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Standing on the Hollis South steps--the only soul in the Yard at the time--was a creature with a boyish face and short-cropped hair, clad in a crimson jersey with the Harvard insignia on it, baggy tan pants, white socks and tattered grey shoes...
...unusual sight of red and tan kilts worn by 21 members of the amateur Stuart Pipe Band and the equally strange wail of bagpipes drew passers-by from Plympton St. and the largest crowd of Quincy House students and affiliates ever to attend the event...
...ever growing government bureaucracy encompasses 1.1 million of the country's 4.1 million workers. It inundates businessmen with almost endless forms and regulates a great deal of private life. A man who wants to repaint his house, for instance, must use officially approved colors (chiefly, various shades of tan...
...court, reported TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs from Luanda, the mercenaries were dressed identically in beltless, one-piece tan prison-issue jumpsuits. During the twice-daily sessions, the prisoners sat calmly on backless wooden stools on a red-roped dock facing the tribunal−a court that consisted of two Angolan lawyers, two soldiers and a representative of OMA, the national women's organization. The mercenaries followed the questioning intently on headsets for simultaneous translation into five languages−English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian. There was a point to having the proceedings delivered in the two latter...
...which add spice to the otherwise rather mechanical beat. Jagger's voice, strained to cracking and loaded with insinuation, narrates this first person tale of a poor man's encounter with a South American whore. "One last dollar/I've got my pride/I'll cut your balls and I'll tan your hide." Subtle? The Stones always did have a way with words. But like "Hot Stuff," "Hey Negrita" suffers at the hands of too much repetition...