Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other, he shoots only when a duck is outlined in the sky, fishes, like anybody else, by waiting for the tug. On his Ozark trips, Cartoonist Fitzpatrick, 54, often goes along...
...grey, troubled streets of Paris began to show patches of color, and U.S. soldiers on furlough caught the first faint scents of spring. Here & there window boxes showed bright yellow daffodils, pink hyacinths, deep-toned violets. The war news was good, and shops blossomed with a gaiety of frothy spring hats and gaudy costume jewelry...
...without even getting our feet wet we ran up the steep beach and started digging in. ... That first night can only be described as a nightmare in hell. The Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area, and the beach was weird with the yellow-light of star shells and the red flash of mortars that fell all around...
...General was still around on D-plus-twelve, he must have seen something to pack his belly with anguish: a huge cloud of yellow dust rising over Motoyama Airfield No. 1. The dust was lifted by big U.S. transport planes landing from Saipan. The Americans were putting to use what they had come to Iwo to get, and the incoming planes were tokens of the approaching end of the hardest amphibious campaign in the Pacific. Iwo Jima was not yet secure, but for practical purposes the ugly, sulfurous, mean little island was theirs...
...While yellow crocuses bloomed in Hyde Park, and on Oxford Street bright bunches of daffodils sold for 7s.6d. ($1.50), Britain counted up one day last week and found that it had been at war for 2,000 days & nights-2,000 days & nights of invasion threats, blitz, robombs, immense suffering, gnawing discomfort (equally immense) and imperturbable defiance of near defeat. For most of those 2,000 days Britons had stared into the hollow eyes of disaster and death; it had not occurred to them to wince. Now the unseasonably warm winds brought not only the scents of thawing soil...