Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after gun crew was blown off the deck by the explosion, but somehow Ensign Willett stayed at his gun. He fired his five remaining shells, watched the long, yellow flames licking the raider from stem to stern. Then he dragged himself to his boat station. He was not seen again...
...over the possibility of torture by Allied soldiers." One prisoner, groveling at the feet of his captors, begged to be shot rather than tortured. Convinced that he would not be tortured, he danced gleefully, insisted upon shaking hands with one & all. Other Japanese had been taught that Australians, relishing yellow meat, ate their prisoners...
...behind. The secretary would advance to her superior's side only on a curt signal, when Colonel Booth had an idea she wanted to discuss. On one hot day, when the SS men gave the internees permission to put on their lightest clothing, Colonel Booth appeared in lemon-yellow cotton bed pajamas, her grey-peppered brown hair hanging almost to her waist, her bonnet still perched on her head...
...Sanctum in honor of his ancestors who had drunk beer there in honor of their ancestors. There, at 4 a.m., he had quietly wondered what he was; there, at 3 a.m., he had stamped out the conga. On the very piece of furniture which now bore him, under the yellow daguerreotype of the bewhiskered 1898 Board, he had written his best editorial, had been introduced to feminine psychology, and had filled out his application to the Army Air Corps...
Strange objections to the Rockefeller Foundation were reported from the jungles of Colombia last week. Foundation doctors, on the trail of yellow fever, had an inexplicably hard time persuading a chief of the Goajiras Indians to permit blood tests on his tribe. Finally the chief agreed to send two tribesmen for testing. The doctors took blood samples, sent the Indians home again...