Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian troops, ready to drop from battle exhaustion, stumbled into 15th-Century Middelburg to find that Daser had paraded all his available troops-more than 2,500 of them -into the square and ordered them to squat down for the night. Then individualist Daser wrapped himself in a yellow patchwork quilt, retired to his bedroom with quantities of aspirin and Veuve Clicquot champagne, refused to go through with the formal details of surrender before dawn...
...Present. But that was in the future. For the moment the battle was still joined on the Hungarian plain, its fields of yellow pumpkins punctuated by small lakes and farm buildings. Persistent rain had made the kind of mud that even stumped bullocks. Infantrymen were all but swimming in the thick goo and tanks were helplessly stalled. Nevertheless the Russians slogged on past the Tisa, past the abandoned German tanks and trucks littering the plains, and on toward the north...
...flag of its conqueror. Before the conquering Japs came in 1895, Formosa flew the triangular Imperial flag of China's Ching Dynasty - a blue dragon on a yellow background...
...American power came back to the Philippines today over the glass-smooth, grass-green waters of Leyte Gulf under a tropical sun coming through an ominous haze lit by yellow flashes and the blasting of guns," that message began. "It was virtually perfect weather for the landings...
...spectators were almost as arresting as the mannequins. One Parisienne wore black lace bobby socks with matching lace earrings. Others in towering electric blue or mustard yellow hats racked shiny bicycles in the marble lobby of Maggy Rouff's salon. Past a dead elevator (no electricity) they clattered on two-inch wooden soles up four flights of blue-carpeted stairs, sat down and glorified the gilt chairs in the long showroom. A sprinkling of WACs, a handful of beady-eyed U.S. officers lined the wall. Appraising eyes watched pretty, pert mannequins strut, simper, pirouette...