Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the first play of the game should have told everyone that this would be a day controlled by circumstance. UMass began its first series with an illegal procedure penalty. The menacing yellow handkerchief would go on to be the most familiar performer of the game. Eleven of 16 penalties would go against Harvard. The mistakes would cost the Crimson 141 yards, a total that stymied the offense and did its best to deflate a stubbornly stellar defense...
...casket was covered with yellow roses, lilies and daisies. Among the 200 mourners at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris were her three ex-husbands. So ended last week the tragic story of Actress Jean Seberg, who was plucked out of obscurity as a 17-year-old Iowan to star in Otto Preminger's 1957 movie Saint Joan, and who died at age 40 in the back seat of her car of an overdose of barbiturates. But even as she was buried, there unfolded in the U.S. an appalling account of how the FBI in 1970 tried to ruin her reputation...
...sexy, yellow...
...asked for permission to install energy-efficient amber streetlights on Cape Cod, Artist Eloise Barnhurst strenuously objected. At a public hearing in Falmouth, Mass., Barnhurst, who serves as a consultant on color to cosmetic companies and advertisers, warned that amber is a potentially explosive mixture of red and yellow. Said she: "Red is the color of sex, but yellow is a nerve energizer that keeps us awake...
...form on other planets, scientists at Ponnamperuma's Laboratory of Chemical Evolution filled a container with gases like those in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Then, to simulate sunlight and Jovian lightning flashes, they exposed the gases to ultraviolet light and shot electric discharges through them. The brown and yellow hues of the organic compounds that formed in the container closely resemble those in the spectacular pictures of the Jupiter clouds taken by the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft, which flew by the planet earlier this year. This finding strongly suggests that organic compounds also exist on Jupiter...