Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead German lay in a ditch. In his worn, dirty infantry-private's uniform, he looked like a fallen bronze statue covered with a heavy greyish-green patina-except for the wax-yellow face, the blond hair and the staring blue eyes. He was young, not much over...
...planes were needed against Jap shipping off the China coast; they were needed up north on the Yellow River, where the enemy was .trying to drive westward in Honan Province; they were needed down south on the Salween, where the Chinese were driving laboriously into Burma to join up with Stilwell's forces...
...brilliantly lit by warm Oriental stars as we hit the Yellow Sea and passed into the trickiest part of our trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...
Winston Churchill, who wore a yellow Mae West, navy blue overcoat, Trinity House cap, saw two Spitfires down a Nazi bomber, saw himself depicted as an octopus on a Nazi propaganda poster...
Political reporters who watched Candidate Burdick stumping the rural districts, whipping off his coat under the expert Langer management, bluntly predicted that Nye was through. But Washington observers-especially those who watched Gerald Nye's shrewd progress from a young bumpkin in bulbous yellow shoes to a sleekly tailored politician who drew down handsome lecture fees for anti-British, anti-Russian tirades-still believed strongly in the Nye talent for self-preservation...