Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright...
...rolling heartland of the U.S., the corn stood brown and brittle in the bright October weather. Farmers tinkered over their mechanical pickers. It was harvest time, and some had started bringing in what early forecasts had predicted would be the second largest corn crop in U.S. history...
Acting President Li Tsung-jen and Premier Yen Hsi-shan flew to Chungking, 700 miles northwest on a Yangtze cliffside, were greeted there by thousands of bright "Welcome" flags. But the famed capital of Free China in the war against the Japanese seemed as dispirited as the rest of non-Communist China. It had survived seven years of blockade by the Japanese. Now it would be an isolated capital again, with distance and not much else to guard it from the oncoming Reds...
...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
...morning we would be awakened by enthusiastic peddlers who leaned into our boat in an attempt to sell us fruit of round cheeses which you ate by carving out from the inside like a jack's lantern. When we washed our dishes in the canals watered with Rhine sewage bright-eyed kiddies and incredulous adults gathered. Little boys who could speak English always appeared at crucial moments to direct us to grocery stores or lead us to inns where we could buy an eel dinner...