Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arranging the rendezvous; some provided transportation, while others posted cryptic signals. One method was to stick tapes to a pillar in an Ottawa shopping center. According to written instructions given the Mountie, "Vertical position of tape-operation takes place in Montreal. Horizontal position-operation takes place in Ottawa. Yellow color-call for the regular meeting. Black color-call for instant meeting...
...time, Peking has asserted its sovereignty over vast reaches of the Asian continental shelf. That could mean trouble, since these claims conflict with those made by nearly all of China's neighbors, including Japan and the Philippines. Though South Korea and Taiwan have granted exploration rights in the Yellow and East China seas to several U.S. companies, including Gulf and Amoco, the U.S. Government has cautioned American companies to keep their research craft away from the disputed areas for fear that China might seize...
Jean Rhys, octogenarian British novelist (Good Morning, Midnight), on living in France: "Paris sort of lifted you up. It did, it did, it did! You know, the light is quite pink, instead of being yellow or blue. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else...
...Emerald City is the World Trade Center, and Director Sidney Lumet has staged extravagant dances at the towers' base. The sunken plaza was covered over with Plexiglas, and 300 dancers, lit by spotlights from below, pound away on top. Lumet wanted to turn the Brooklyn Bridge into the Yellow Brick Road by putting down 25 miles of yellow vinyl. The New York police gave him a firm no, however, and he settled for paving a footbridge over the East River...
...Freshman Council recently opened a display case for student artwork in the yellow dining room of the Freshman Union...