Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...post-landing celebrations. All further activities were cancelled, including a steak and lobster dinner, and NASA doctors began treating the three men for a potentially serious lung problem. Unknown to the watching world, the glowing hot Apollo had begun filling with what the astronauts described as a "brownish-yellow gas" as it plunged through the 24,000-ft. level. Scarcely able to breathe, the spacemen choked through the harrowing four-minute descent. After the splashdown, they struggled for another five minutes, while suspended upside down in the capsized craft, to get at oxygen masks, stowed in a hard-to-reach...
...surge subsided, and Parker made some notes on a yellow pad. Then he directed Maggie and another woman, Annie Warner, to switch boats. This was it Maggie and Annie moved slowly and carefully, their movements synchronized: hands grasp the boats legs shift over, hips swing down, "Full power...Hoooooo!" Another surge, then another switch back, and a final surge, Maggie didn't do well...
...discovered during his recent domestic forays, across the land. Former Army Secretary Howard Callaway-who is now Gerald Ford's campaign manager-declaimed that: "There's a feeling in this country that Teddy Roosevelt helped the Panamanians get their independence, negotiated the treaty, paid for it, conquered yellow fever and brought them their sole economic enterprise. There's the feeling that the canal is enormously valuable, that we paid for it, and it's ours." More than one-third of the Senate-enough to block ratification of a new treaty -also opposes any change...
Across the fertile heartland of America, the van plummeted. Yellow images welled into its bugsmirched windshield--car chrome rendered gassy, half-tone faces in an air-conditioned pickle, blind voices whimpering in dying voids. Stubbed fingers of headlights scratched across closecropped weeds and into gritty caverns of trucked roar. And through the smoky sheen of translucent film, through the captive atmosphere of this worn, pummeled bag. America swelled in disembodied waves...
...staged an exhibition of tableaux vivants called "The Americans." He imported an Alabama dirt farmer, a California fisherman, a stockbroker and an Oklahoma oil driller to stand around and represent themselves, but his pièce de résistance was a New York cab driver complete with yellow cab and nonstop monologue for anyone who ventured to enter it. Says Graham: "It seemed an interesting thing...