Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John River in northern Maine. Among them: lack of money, environmental protests that it would flood a wilderness area and doubts about the benefit it would bring. But one threat to the project was a problem that seemed downright silly: the discovery of a few clumps of a greenish-yellow wild flower called the Furbish lousewort growing near the dam site. Because the plant, named for Botanist Kate Furbish, was not known to exist anywhere else, the dam location could conceivably have been ruled out under the 1973 Endangered Species...
...armed convoy that wound its way through Cologne's streets last week was bringing well-known Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, 62, home from his downtown office. Suddenly the blue Mercedes carrying Schleyer screeched to a halt in order to avoid crashing into a yellow sedan that was blocking half the street and a baby carriage that had rolled across the other half. Sensing danger, the driver of the convoy's second car pulled up behind Schleyer's auto. As three of the bodyguards jumped out, they and Schleyer's chauffeur were mowed down by at least...
...heroine-a hapless working girl who has been ravished by her factory's party boss. Another underground story, The Hunan River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang for porn-entitled The Heart of a Young Girl graphically details the sexual adventures of a city woman dispatched to work on a commune...
...buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk about the "beneficent radiation" of his color, of its power to heal, and he would prop up his paintings, like sun lamps, around the bed of a sick friend. In the National Gallery, in the sublime, undulating leaf patterns in green, blue and yellow that Matisse designed for the stained-glass windows of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, this radiation is almost enough to give the viewer...
...antimalaria drives in the 1950s and 1960s. From the southern U.S. to northern Argentina in South America, the Pan American Health Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted...