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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Robert Cutler was about to lead our L Company in an assault on the lower slopes of this ridge. On our left was another hill, half green where grape vineyards had been planted and half yellow where wheat was planted. Up this slope Morehouse and K Company were now attacking, and we could see their red tracer bullets shooting very prettily into the green of the grape vines. Thrush! Wham! a shell with terrific velocity flew over our heads through the pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: THE FALL OF TROINA | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...girls who happened to the rowing on the Charles in the cool afternoon sent beaming smiles glowing over the water, perhaps accounting for the vigor with which all four platoons bang "Under A Bamboo Tree," "It's A Long Way to Tipperary," and "Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

...yellow dog I'd hate to have his standard of living fixed by this man Davis and the men who do his dirty work for him. . . . [Davis is] a rapacious, predatory Park Avenue lawyer on the loose in Washington against the American worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John Lewis Moves Again | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...yellow balls of German tracers dropped in from three sides. The red balls of oar machine guns grew less & less, seemingly overwhelmed. We marched on, knowing that we had not surprised the enemy. We would have to fight for the hills in daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Taking of White House Hill | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Fighter at three o'clock." The right gun spurted at a Focke-Wulf boring in, his guns winking red and yellow. He was close enough to show that he was painted a dusky blue, not black, with white crosses on the wing and fuselage. The gun followed as he passed close below us, smoke ribboning from his tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOLIDAY OVER PARIS | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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