Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daylight the combines of Jessie Small's command look like green and yellow robots roaming through the wheat. When they start rolling down the length of a 60-acre section, it seems as if they will just keep right on going. Never stopping. Never turning aside. A 24-ft.-wide reel spins languidly in front of each combine, like a big lawnmower in slow motion, nudging the pale stalks of wheat gently into the path of unseen cutting blades...
...apparition that graced the skies over France last week looked rather like a giant exclamation point, which was entirely appropriate for the occasion. An enormous silvery balloon -eleven stories high-was sailing majestically through the air at 12 m.p.h., while in a red and yellow gondola below rode three bleary-eyed Americans, their excitement overcoming their exhaustion...
...many years has been trying to "demonetize" gold-that is, end its use as a reserve asset-on the reasonable ground that the volume of world trade and investment should not depend on how much of a yellow metal can be dug out of the ground in South Africa. But the price rise is renewing gold's glitter in the eyes of central bankers. Australia, Italy, France and The Netherlands, all financial allies of the U.S., have revalued their gold holdings from the old official rate of $35 an ounce to the prevailing market price, thus multiplying the value...
...Philharmonic's open-air concert near by. At lunch hour, regulars glide along the park's winding paths, lapping the joggers. Some of the joggers are in fact beginning to roll, and one skate manufacturer has come out with a "jogger" model-a blue running shoe with yellow racing stripes mounted on wheels. After all, skating uses many of the same muscles as running, burns a respectable number of calories and is easier on the knees...
...were sentenced to prison, there to die soon after. One Cathar-a not-so-perfect parfait given to shady business dealings and fornication-was burned at the stake. Beatrice de Planissoles, the chatelaine, was released along with her latest swain, another priest-but Beatrice was sentenced to wear the yellow cross of repentant heretics. As for the zealous bishop, he went on to become the zealous Pope Benedict XII. Harsh and unbending still, he at last corrected some of the ecclesiastical abuses that had first disturbed the flock long ago at the forgotten little town of Montaillou. - Mayo Mohs