Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wizard of Oz. Follow the yellow brick road to Emerson 105, this Friday and Saturday...
...shots were actually fired. Instead, 1,900 umpires-sporting white armbands and riding in Jeeps flying white pennants-clambered about the battlefield. Over field radios, commanders were told "You're dead," while "killed" vehicles were marked with yellow flags. There were, however, real casualties; in ground accidents and one mid-air collision, two American servicemen and six German civilians were killed...
...Manichaean world of Great Bad Books, evil is always more compelling than heroism. Such works as John Buchan's The 39 Steps construct elaborate international conspiracies; Sax Rohmer's exemplary Fu Manchu series features a supervillain "with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race . . . the Yellow Peril incarnate." From there it is only a bullet's journey to Ian Fleming's Doctor...
...should have been the case with the whole game, the play on which it occurred was nullified. Following Dent's touchdown, Bob Kinchen found a hole on the ensuing kickoff the size of the Broadway Street underpass and raced 95 yards for the tying touchdown. Until, that is, a yellow flag told the sparse gathering that the hole had come courtesy of a clip. Thanks, but no thanks...
...autumn is a blatantly vital season, contrary to the allegations of sorrowful poets who misconstrue the message of dying leaves. A more realistic poet, Archibald MacLeish, says that "Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen...