Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler was very angry with his little yellow partners when they Pearl Harbored the United States into the war, because he was sure that his American fifth column had already won the battle of America by a psychological poisoning of the American mind...
Across the sands of Egypt the bagpipes of the 51st Highlanders skirled. By the Hill of Jesus, by the Hill of Evil Men, military policemen in white gloves waved yellow lanterns to guide the tanks along the paths which sappers, many of whom gave their lives, had cleared through German minefields. British armor and infantry poured through...
...there were piles of bodies; here one with a backbone visible from the front, and the rest of the flesh and bone peeled up over the man's head, like the leaf of an artichoke; there a charred head, hairless but still equipped with blackened eyeballs; pink, blue, yellow entrails drooping; a man with a red bullet hole through his eye; a dead Jap private, wearing dark, tortoise-shell glasses, his buck teeth bared in a humorless grin, lying on his back with his chest a mess of ground meat. There is no horror to these things. The first...
Soon the orange light rushed down on us out of the blackness, and, racing between us and a pale yellow star, disappeared. The night was moonless, and nowhere was there land...
...rain-splashed Maryland hilltop last week stood a shivering band of Army generals, colonels, majors and news correspondents. Below them, spread over a sea of yellow muck, was an amazing spectacle. An M-4 (General Sherman) tank lumbered noisily through the mud, nosed down into a shell hole, up the other side, paused before the generals' hill, then roared away. At its heels came a lighter tank, a General Stuart, followed rank on rank by U.S. gun carriers, tanks, armored cars, combination gun & man carriers in seemingly endless variety, the newest and most formidable mechanized weapons of a nation...