Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they sat on the uncomfortable side of the law as defendants in a Washington federal courtroom, separated by a vacant chair-and a frosty silence. For 45 awkward, painful minutes, during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer...
Heller writes in longhand on yellow pads and 3-by-5 cards, which he carries with him constantly. He does not meet friends for lunch any more ("I enjoyed that too much, and all I wanted to do was sleep the rest of the afternoon"), now jogs three miles a day in a gym. "It's good mentally," he says, "but so boring that I can barely get through...
...Ford seemed to glow with good health on Friday morning when she and her husband joined Lady Bird Johnson at a ground-breaking ceremony for the L.B.J. Memorial Grove on the banks of the Potomac River. Later in the day, Mrs. Ford had Lady Bird to tea in the yellow Oval Room of the living quarters at the White House. No one noticed when the President's wife quietly slipped out of the White House shortly after 5 p.m. to keep her appointment at the hospital...
According to the Chinese, "acupuncturation," the art of acupuncture, originated under the reign of Huang-ti, the Yellow Emperor, who acceded to the thrown in 2704 B.C. A book called Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen (The Yellow Emperor's Classic on Internal Medicine), which was written around 400 A.D., relates many of the emperor's tales of acupuncture. One tale, for example, tells of a soldier who was hit with an arrow and noticed an improvement in an illness affecting a completely different part of his body...
Only the so-called privileged boats, designated by yellow-and-orange flags with large black numbers in the center, are allowed to penetrate the Coast Guard defense. These yachts carried members of the various syndicates which had backed not only the two twelves racing that day, but also such vanquished boats as Baron Bic's French challenger, eliminated by the Cross, and the various American hopefuls--all beaten out by the Courageous for the chance to defend the Grand Auld Mug, as it is sometimes unfortunately known...