Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resonant voice may have a steely edge, and his long legs may take longer, caged-lion strides. He does not have General Patton's histrionic flair, or General Eisenhower's command of expletives. Yet he can let off steam with a sharp "Ibbsob!" which merely means yellow-bellied s.o.b...
...floodlights, so that everyone could see him, Father Heitker stood before the grey and yellow marble altar. Worshipers intently watched his hands and lips. While his busy fingers formed signs, his lips formed words, which he spoke in a low voice. Most of the congregation were deaf-mutes, who followed the sermon by means of sign language. Those merely hard of hearing read his lips...
Toward the Beach. We were nearly ten miles from the beach. The continuous circling in the water was tedious and some of us fell asleep. When we woke the yellow moon was turning orange and growing dimmer, the sky to our left was lit by flashes of gunfire where the British were supposed to be attacking Salerno, and now & then a huge glare ripped apart the darkness, as if a ship were exploding out to sea. But before us all was quiet and dark. We broke our circle and headed in a column toward a shore, which we could...
Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
...Amphitheatre, introduced Manhattan to a new art form, conceived in blackface and dedicated to the proposition that the white man could equal Negro comedy, song and dance. The Music Hall's directors strewed its stage with comedians and buck & wing dancers, got themselves a towering interlocutor in a yellow satin dress suit, and put on a 38-minute minstrel show of huge, streamlined proportions...