Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stepped on the suede foot of the woman behind him, but the "pardon me" got stuck in his throat as he found himself face to face with a yellow sweatered Norma. "Hold hands with me?" he pleaded silently. She didn't. She smiled and asked if he knew Bill Thompson in Kirkland House. Vag did. "Remember me to him, will you? He'll remember me." He didn't want to move on, but the eyes of woman No. 53 said hurry. "He sure will," Vag called back toward the yellow sweater. She was too busy with No. 53 to hear...
...many days after exams last June, a wayward Crimeditor left his typewriters and yellow copy paper and sneaked into the recruiting station on Huntington Avenue. Last night, the musty smell of ink and exchanges lured him off Plympton Street into the old haunts...
Nowadays, your conscience is immaterial--your time just comes. So you might as well resign yourself to being crowded into tarp-covered trucks and troop trains, and to forgetting those pet green and yellow ties and oxford shoes...
...which last week estimated its 1942 sales 125% over last year to a record $100,000,000. Diamond T had just announced nine months' profits up 45% to $1,063,000-quite a contrast to the 34% drop in the combined profits of competitors, Mack Trucks and Yellow Truck & Coach. Atop this, Diamond T boasts it is producing "twice as many" heavy trucks as the whole industry did before...
...Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which vies with Virginia Military Institute for second rank (after Annapolis and West Point) among U.S. military academies, will be 100 years...