Word: yellowness
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...with a bagpipe band of law enforcement players warming up at street level. We walked down the ramp that brought us four stories below street level to the footprint of one tower of the World Trade Center, with a giant billboard above heralding the Freedom Tower, 2012, bordered by yellow cranes and cement foundation walls. In the ceremonial square, a single large pascal candle, used at Easter and funerals to represent new life and resurrection, stood above a small reflecting pool and a symbolic plot of earth. We soon realized that there would be only the participants of the ceremony...
...Hope, Barack Obama tells an amusing story about his first tour through downstate Illinois, when he had the audacity to order Dijon mustard on his cheeseburger at a TGI Friday's. His political aide hastily informed the waitress that Obama didn't want Dijon at all, and thrust a yellow bottle of ordinary-American heartland-values mustard at him instead. The perplexed waitress informed Obama that she had Dijon if he wanted. He smiled and said thanks. "As the waitress walked away, I leaned over and whispered that I didn't think there were any photographers around," Obama recalled...
Sporting a pair of Gucci tortoiseshell frames, a mustard-yellow tee from Banana Republic and black Zegna jeans, Zebrowski-Rubin explains that entering the competition simply involved submitting a few photographs and a short personal statement...
...Grima most would be "to see 28-year-olds wearing their grandmothers' pieces." In his heyday, Grima had stores in Zurich, London, New York, Tokyo and Sydney, and counted a Swinging '60s Princess Margaret and Bond girl Ursula Andress as fans. In the '70s, when his work in textured yellow gold and raw emeralds, sapphires and opals became even wilder, Jacqueline Onassis became a convert. His most significant client, however, was the Queen of England, who still reaches into her jewelry box for old favorites. Last year she chose to wear a striking Grima brooch of rubies and diamonds, created...
...take the initiative. “The obvious question is, do we have a quorum?” Burgard asked, setting in motion a brief flurry of activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow notebook pad. Examining the sheet, University President Drew G. Faust conferred briefly with the meeting’s acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter K. Bol, before making her pronouncement into the microphone: “no.” “I would like to say that...