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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actually see Birdy fly. We believe that he speaks canary language, that he understands the birds' system of time, that he knows what it is like to soar higher than the trees and that Perta, the yellow canary with the green eyebrows, can inspire Birdy to love and wet dreams. We believe he is a bird...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Novel That Soars | 3/13/1979 | See Source »

Your article on the hippie bus [Feb. 12] sparked my own memories of such a trip. The bus was yellow and gray and prone to mechanical problems. Thirty of us and a dog lived for two days (it seemed much longer) on wall-to-wall mattresses, sleeping feet-to-feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1979 | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Dong Dang. Lang Son. Blunt yet musical Vietnamese place names, redolent of history, blood and death. At the railhead city of Dong Dang, a 30-ft. yellow gate marks Japan's invasion of Indochina in 1940, which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt's perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Feel the Air and The Yellow Wallpaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 1-March 7 | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Fell The Air and The Yellow Wallpaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 1-March 7 | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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