Word: teal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both descriptions are accurate. Stretching nearly 200 miles from its northern end at the Susquehanna flats to its southern end at the Virginia capes, only 30 miles wide at its broadest point, the Chesapeake has long been a source of almost overwhelming natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...
...trophy room" is off the foyer. The walls are covered with gold and platinum albums and singles. Mahogany cases, the kind museums use for displaying rare manuscripts, glint with gold and platinum. Jackson walks me to the screening room. The walls and the curtain drawn across the screen are teal blue. The 32 seats are upholstered in red velvet. In the den is a horseshoe-shaped viewing area, with a couch facing a fireplace and a builtin television set. Another large clock with Roman numerals hangs above the mantelpiece. Off the den is a mahogany bar under a leaded stained...
Thomson calls herself a winter. "I can wear burgundy, teal, black, light true blue." Her "medium taupe brown hair" has no red in it, which she says make her look better in blue tones rather than golden ones...
...inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young, aggressive maker of exploration gear for the oil industry, Texas Instruments, had already hired away another Bell Labs star, Gordon Teal, and was churning out the little gadgets. So were old-line tube makers such as General Electric, RCA, Sylvania and Raytheon. Much of their production went to the Pentagon, which found transistors ideal for a special computing task: the guidance of missiles...
...four times greater than that. It looked like a solid case against hunting until the EPA chimed in to announce that its own standards provide a margin of safety "100 times higher" than the dosage that would affect a normal person. "A 60-lb. child could eat a whole teal and still be five times below the 'no effect' level," said an agency spokesman. To that, National Wildlife Federation Toxicologist George Manring retorted: "People may not drop dead from eating one bird. But endrin accumulates over several seasons and from different sources."It also remains in the soil...