Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frazier tells us that tumbleweed came from Russia, that Nicodemus, Kans. (pop. 50), was founded by black settlers in 1877, that during the dust-bowl years of the mid-'30s storms called "dusters" were identified by color -- brown from Kansas, red from Oklahoma, dirty yellow from Texas and New Mexico. He relates that in 1910 C.W. Post, the cereal magnate, tried to produce rain at Post City, Texas, by blowing up boxcarloads of dynamite. He had enough success, or at least enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux...
...Japan-bashing is often xenophobic, and can border on the racist. Two years ago, when Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...years before last summer, there had been 233 such fires, which consumed a modest 34,157 acres. But the policy became increasingly controversial last July and August as the fires and smoke repeatedly drove tourists from the park. This, in turn, made federal officials in Washington as skittish as yellow-bellied marmots on the lookout for hungry eagles...
...worked for Gulf, traveled to Atlanta but disappeared prior to a scheduled appearance before the grand jury. A month later, former Gulf Power director Robert McRae and his wife were found shot to death at their home in Graceville, Fla. In the weeks since the crash, three dead yellow birds -- which Levin believes are Mafia-style warnings not to divulge the substance of his last conversation with Horton -- have been deposited outside the attorney's home and office, and there have been threats on his life. Last week, in the company of five security guards, Levin traveled to Atlanta...
...long boats are racing past mist-wreathed rain-forest mountains, and the muddy park is taken over by cricket. But not the game of white-flannel elegance as it is played at the Marylebone Cricket Club in London. Oh, no! This is tropical, Technicolor kirikiti -- buxom girls in lemon yellow shirts and sky blue skirts thwacking around a homemade rubber ball with a three-sided bat, while supporters rhythmically chant and dance and beat vigorously on biscuit tins...