Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black children, most from Roxbury, who had been reassigned to Southie's schools. Outside the brown-brick fortress of South Boston High School, which had a projected enrollment of 1,539 (797 black), a jeering, mostly teen-aged crowd of whites threw stones and bottles at two yellow buses that carried the 56 black students who showed up for opening day. As school was dismissed that afternoon, the whites brandished lengths of rubber hose and clubs and again threw bottles at the buses. Nine black students and a bus monitor were slightly injured by shattering glass...
...details amassed are awesome. The reader will learn that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that...
President Ford gave a courageous talk to the V.F.W. on amnesty. In the reaction of these bitter men, words like cowards, yellow, slinking, shirkers and traitors are used over and over. One must believe that they never heard any of the reasons why millions of us believe the war to have been wrong...
...each team's work station, for example, a computer-connected television screen projects figures comparing the team's production goal with the number of assemblies it has actually completed. On top of the screen a yellow light flashes if the team is behind schedule; a green light comes on when it is ahead. So far, the plant is only turning out 56 cars a day, but by 1975 the company hopes to achieve annual production of 30,000 cars...
...spared nothing in pursuit of victory. Bond paid for a complete marina and twelve-meter training facilities at Sun City. He gained the services of Robert Miller, a brilliant, self-taught designer who produced the banana yellow Southern Cross. Bond cash also provided Southern Cross with an on-board computer named Fred that helped evaluate the boat's early performance, and flashed salty admonitions (like "Piss off') to the navigator...