Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he is absolutely certain, he bets--usually $1500 at a clip. In the Amstel race he was more than certain and he bet much more. In the evening he returns to his club deep in the heart of New York. He is under thirty, single and partial to yellow shirts...
Legends, transmitted through an oral tradition, are notoriously unreliable. Yet those confided to Maziere seemed to yield strong evidence that Easter Island has passed through three epochs. In the first, the island was inhabited by "the Others," who, according to native tradition, "were yellow, very big, with long arms. They came by boat from a land that lies beyond America." It was the yellow men, Maziere believes, who created the first stone giants, the finest sculptures on the island. In the second epoch, which in Maziere's rough chronology began in the 13th century, the island was invaded...
...message. Last week, following a round of secret conferences in Manhattan spaced over five days, the commissioner said: "I'm happy to announce that Joe will be back with the Jets. He is selling his interest in Bachelors III, and we consider the matter entirely closed." Resplendent in yellow and tan sports shirt atop pinstriped, black bell-bottom trousers, Namath said: "We all got a little tired of the situation. I still insist I haven't done anything wrong, but there is still that area of doubt, that question with the public which we are trying to erase...
...students, he said, "This was the most exciting day of my life since my tenth birthday, when I rode a roller coaster for the first time." After he had become known statewide and was denounced by blacks as "Uncle Tojo Tom," he jokingly told reporters that he represented "yellow power" and that he was "Emperor of California...
Well, that ruined masturbation. Slain at the altar of the muse! As if that weren't bad enoug for one vacation, or maybe because it was, I momentarily forgot that enough and found myself in a block-long line waiting to see the notorious I Am Curious (Yellow...