Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candlelight. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. -Robert Louis Stevenson...
...parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has sold 100,000 copies, making it the bestselling record by a German in recent years. SCHEEL SANG headlined the tabloid Bild. ALL GERMANY IS RAVING...
Then this black guy came out and started jumping an dancing and whipping the microphone cord around all over the stage. This, the ponderous yellow-jacketed m.c. announced, was O.B. McClinton...
Self-Help Projects. At present, half of the Portuguese troops on duty in Africa are recruited from the territories themselves, and 40% are black. Special groups of yellow-bereted black troops are used to "mentalize the masses"-a sort of winning-the-hearts-and-minds program carried out by living with villagers for long periods, organizing self-help projects and pleading the Portuguese cause. Other units, known as flechas (arrows), are made up of rebel defectors who sometimes patrol in captured uniforms and are rewarded with cash bounties for every guerrilla or guerrilla weapon they capture...
...Midnight: Yellow Submarine...