Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conditioned hall. The chamber was filled with row upon row of white mourning wreaths. At the end of a red carpet 50 yards ahead of us stood Mao's funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait of the Chairman. A white-lettered streamer read, "We mourn with deepest grief the great leader and teacher, Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Cannonballs and antique china. The sword and uniform Robert E. Lee wore at Appomattox. Jeb Stuart's boots and the saddle on which he received his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern. Stonewall Jackson's cap. Three hundred battle flags. It was all there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where...
Roxbury, Sept 10--This predominantly black neighborhood of Boston came to life peacefully and uneventfully in this, the third day of the third year under the city's court-ordered desegregation plan. As the familiar and unattractive yellow vehicles marked "School Bus" and the occasional roving police cars bounced along the hilly, pot-holed streets, black children gathered, chatting, to be picked up on designated corners...
Roxbury, Sept 10-This predominantly black neighborhood of Boston came to life peacefully and uneventfully in this, the third day of the third year under the city's court-ordered desegregation plan. As the familiar and unattractive yellow vehicles marked "School Bus" and the occasional roving police cars bounced along the hilly, pot-holed streets, black children gathered, chatting, to be picked up on designated corners...
...nearly 5,000 head of cattle per week to packers, feed-lot owners and out-of-state cattlemen, almost five times the average during a normal summer. But business is not normal anywhere in South Dakota this summer. Parched by the worst drought in 42 years, the prairies are yellow and burnt, and at least half of the state's oats, wheat and barley cash crops have been devastated. In all, the drought could cost the state $1 billion, or half of its annual agricultural output. Since April, less than four inches of rain has fallen in the eastern...