Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extent to which the repair business is thriving in Cambridge is reflected by the number of used part junkyards and body shops close by--the yellow pages list over 50 of them in Cambridge and Somerville alone. A sizeable number of these are clumped closely together in a three-block area along Columbia and Webster streets right on the Cambridge-Somerville line...
...cars from which to salvage those parts. The connection between all the cars piled in the yards in the alley and the personal injury and property damage that resulted from the traffic accidents involving these cars is often difficult to make. But, on some of the manged cars, cryptic yellow markings on the windshield tell the tragic story: "4-19-75. Head...
Carrying books and paper-bag lunches, some 200 inner-city black boys and girls walked quickly but quietly from five yellow school buses, past dozens of armed state and county troopers, and into Louisville's suburban Valley High School. Nervously they joked among themselves about the curious stares from dozens of white students pressing against the school's windows. Within minutes the same buses left, carrying a handful of apprehensive white boys and girls to the formerly all-black Shawnee High School on the city's west side. Muttered a woman driver: "I'm ashamed and worried. But this...
...roughly the same time in Boston, about 500 police in riot gear and federal marshals surrounded shabby Charlestown High School, in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument. Armed with a high-powered rifle, a police sharpshooter carefully watched a sullen crowd of whites as three yellow buses unloaded 66 black boys and girls. They showed their student identification cards to school officials, passed through an electronic metal detector that checked for weapons, and walked into the gray stone building. Later that day, a band of 100 white youths rampaged down Monument Street, overturning three Volkswagens, and other angry whites...
...called Yellow Book, Rosovsky's 22-page letter to the Faculty of October 1974, outlined his understanding of the issues peculiar to undergraduate education at Harvard...