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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midblock he had the street tucked neatly under his arm. By the time he got to the corner he had walked away with the turnaway hit of the season, second only to Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1978 grosses. Saturday Night Fever has started Travolta along a yellow-brick show-biz road that reaches out of sight, raised discomania to a national craze and made superstars of a likable rock group called the Bee Gees for the second, or maybe it's the third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Steppin' to stardom | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson gutted out two third-set tiebreaker wins at Georgia Tech the next day to string the Yellow Jackets...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Racquetmen Take Pair Down South... | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...March 1, it flew a 747 loaded with celebrities to Britain for what it had planned as a gala inauguration of its new run be tween London and Dallas-Fort Worth. The Life Guards band turned out at Gatwick airport to serenade the orange jumbo jet with The Yellow Rose of Texas. But the British government would not let Braniff fly passengers back to the U.S. at the new low fares, and the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board refused to let Braniff charge the high fares. Result: the plane flew back with its nonpaying passengers, and Braniff suspended its new service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victory over the Atlantic | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Need Is Cash are visual. Idle and Weis have reshot sequences from Richard Lester's mod Beatles films (now called A Hard Day's Rut and Ouch!) to poke wicked fun at their most faddish excesses; similar pranks have been pulled on the psychedelic animation of Yellow Submarine. Unfortunately, the show's creators have not lavished nearly so much care on their casting. The four Rutles (Idle, Innes, John Halsey, Rikki Fataar) are virtually indistinguishable, and their performances are morbidly charmless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Help! | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...parent publishing company, headquarters is a somber neoclassical building of yellow Worcester stone on Oxford's Walton Street. An unincorporated business without stockholders, the press is owned by the university, and governed by 19 "delegates," Oxford dons picked for their ability to sift through scholarly manuscripts and select for publication the superior one in ten. The press's entire profits, $7.5 million last year, are plowed back into the production of more books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford's Ancient Quality Act | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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