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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being used as a furniture warehouse, was not really the issue. Instead, with 32 fast-food eating places already along Mass Ave between Harvard and MIT, the community was simply saying it was fed up and wanted to avoid the humiliation of living next door to those too-familiar yellow arches...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Cambridge Is More Than a College Town | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

...third-floor solarium. For their dating, "I'm looking for a back stairway for Gardner, so he won't have to go through all that stuff," Susan says. After surveying the mansion, Susan picked a suite on the third floor and asked that it be repainted yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chatting with Betty and Susan | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...Frank Ikard for the retiring dean of the U.S. Senate. Aiken admirers donned casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork shirt), Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns (yellow, blue and white sport jacket), Senators Abraham Ribicoff, J. William Fulbright and Herman Talmadge. In a pink pantsuit, former Presidential Secretary Rose Mary Woods forgot other matters and led a bipartisan hoedown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 26, 1974 | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...salesman from Oshkosh, Wis., Tippers International now claims 2,700 members in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. "I think tipping is a way of life," says Schein, 63, "but I think we have to control it a bit." Schein's control takes the form of blue and yellow report cards that members skewer with a monogrammed T.I. toothpick and leave with (or instead of) their tip. A blue card compliments the service and food. A yellow card contains a check list of complaints: service, quality of food, cleanliness, prices, courtesy and atmosphere. The card system, claims Schein, provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tipper's Revenge | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

...comments are forwarded to the offending eateries as well, because restaurant owners seldom get the benefit of the constructive criticism on the cards that T.I. members lay on the table. Waiters and waitresses surreptitiously pocket the telltale yellow complaints even faster than they snap up tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Tipper's Revenge | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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