Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials when we reported that the President, during a closed-door session with top economic advisers, had set an original budget ceiling of $225 billion (TIME, Aug. 10, 1970). Some aides assumed that there had been a leak. Actually, says Malkin, "the figure was worked out on pads of yellow paper with fragmentary information on budget policy pieced together until there could be no other conclusion...
...apparent precision, there were glitches?those unexpected bugs that seem to plague the 15 million-part Apollos on all space voyages. The astronauts were just about to settle down for a leisurely coast to the moon when suddenly a yellow light flashed on, signaling that the command ship's main rocket, the 20,500-lb. service propulsion engine, had been switched on. Immediately there was fear that the moon landing would have to be aborted, but the experts in Houston soon diagnosed the problem as a faulty switch...
...ruins of Hiroshima, it was a sight that few could forget. The young man, his hands behind his back, was tied by a piece of wire to a crazily tilting utility pole. How he got there is still a mystery. He wore only a pair of red, green and yellow trunks. He appeared miraculously unblemished. But what burned itself into the minds of those who saw him was that the prisoner was an American...
Gold v. Steel. Before its great leap forward into anaesthesia, acupuncture had changed little. The original text is a book about 2,300 years old. Dr. Ilza Veith, professor of the history of health sciences at the University of California (San Francisco), has translated it as The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine. According to this canon, the body has twelve more or less vertical channels or "meridians," and along these are 365 points at which the insertion of a needle will have a physiological effect. These points do not follow any anatomical system recognized in the West...
...North Dakota for 19 years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants...