Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long in drab Room 830 of New York City's Municipal Building, they gathered last week-the affluent and the needy, the young and the old. They had two things in common: all clutched yellow receipts, and all were frightfully worried that New York would not have the money to redeem the maturing city securities that they held. A Long Island couple needed their $5,000 to pay for a child's education. A messenger waited patiently to cash in $15 million in notes held by the Chemical Bank. An elderly married pair anxiously awaited payment...
...yellow ribbon around the bars on Patty Hearst's Alameda County jail cell, but a dozen yellow roses from the FBI stretches my imagination...
From time immemorial we have recognized yellow fever, malaria, syphilis, leprosy, perversion, degeneracy, garbage and homosexuality in about that order...
...Francisco office and the man directing the overall search for Patty (see box page 16), ordered a watch to be kept on both dwellings. On Precita Avenue, four agents sat in a light green Ford LTD parked at the curb, and three more waited in a yellow and white camper just down the block. The agents wore sandais, beards and beads, hoping to blend in with the inhabitants of the area. Still, neighbors spotted the stakeout and watched with considerable interest to find out who was being trailed. No one appears to have suspected the athletic and pleasant young couple...
Action Shift. The competing efforts to expand and contract the strike revolved around Patriot Spokesman Vataha, who fielded calls from other player representatives, mediators, owners and his teammates on one yellow wall phone in the kitchen of his home in Canton, Mass., south of Boston. Downing Cokes by the dozen to keep awake, the short (5 ft. 10 in.) pass catcher and onetime Snow White dwarf at Disneyland went on a 24-hour schedule. "Don't mind me if I'm a little incoherent," he warned callers. "I haven't slept for three days...