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Word: yella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blow for Liberty "There's a lot of yella bastards in the country who would like to call pa triotism old-fashioned," grouses Wayne today. As he sees it, yesterday was even worse. "With all that leftist activity, I was quite obviously on the other side," he recalls. "I was invited at first to a coupla cell meetings, and I played the lamb to listen to 'em for a while. The only guy that ever fooled me was the di rector Edward Dmytryk. I made a pic ture with him called Back to Bataan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...once accustomed to the sweet, incisive, brilliant tone of the harpsichord (its metal strings are plucked by leather plectra or picks, instead of being struck by hammers), they find its sound mystically satisfying. West Coast Psychologist Bob Johnson, 39, heard his first harpsichord on a recording by Yella Pessl, found, while living in Portland, that he felt "sad and in limbo because there was no harpsichord in 1,000 miles." He bought two, now holds frequent meetings for fellow harpsichordists at evening sessions in his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Plectra Pluckers | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

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