Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounded through the Royal Plaza of Bangkok last week to herald a royal wedding. Just before the astrologically auspicious moment for their marriage ceremony-8:39 a.m.-Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, 24, and his first cousin, Somsawali Kittiyakorn, 19, rolled up to the palace in a procession led by two yellow Rolls-Royces. Following Thai tradition, the ceremony included prayers to Buddha and the pouring of lustral water on the heads of the young cousins by the groom's grandmother. After the rites were concluded, the bride's father added a Western touch to the event. He gave...
...could not gain lodging in the hotels of the cities; nor could they quench their thirst at a drinking fountain--even in a public building. These signs bolted the door to the new and well-equipped schools near Martin King's home, and denied him a seat on the yellow bus that carried the white children to those schools. Those signs were calculated to effectively impress upon the mind of every Black person that he and she had been meticulously read out of the Declaration of Independence and reduced to three-fifths of a person (and then only...
...Bright yellow foul-weather gear and gum-soled shoes were common sights in Harvard Yard. Many students reported difficulty in walking in the slush...
...Odradek Stadium), Mathews has recently composed poems to be printed on Mobius strips; works based on algorithms; and even a sentence that, spoken by a crow to a scarecrow, contains in sequence the sounds of all the letters in the alphabet: "Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he!" To fashion such creations, the OuLiPoians must be, as Martin Gardner characterizes them, "whimsical and slightly mad, as well as brilliant and too little known." But in art as in science, experiment leads to discovery...
...Second Jewish Catalog, with an appendix called The Jewish Yellow Pages, is crammed with practical advice on such matters as weaving Passover tablecloths, organizing a bar mitzvah (with hints for writing your own ceremony) and proper behavior in a synagogue (sit up front for serious prayer, toward the rear for socializing). There are chapters on Jewish folk dancing and starting a Judaica stamp collection and a brief course of instruction on liturgical chanting. The yellow-page directory lists kosher candy stores, Yiddish record shops and Jewish genealogical-research services. Do you want to crochet a woolen serving basket for matzo...