Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fortresses weaving across the top of Buna through sooty puffs of ack-ack fire which are ragged now from repeated bombing. There is nothing else to see but the cloud-spattered tropic sky above the vast bowl of sun-drenched, emerald-green jungle, which is interspersed with patches of yellow, man-high kunai grass. In this incredibly tangled mass of rank vegetation and evil smelling swamps, thousands of men, Americans, Australians and Japanese, are engaged in one of the most merciless and most primeval battles...
Immediately moderate isolationists, including Taft and Vandenberg, as well as the old diehards, Johnson and Nye, flocked to their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...
Dying Weather. Mountains, mottled green, yellow, red and grey, tower thousands of feet into the air, drop precipitously into the emerald green Salween, called by the natives Wu-ti Ho, the River without a Bottom. In the jungles with the Chinese were leopards and tigers, pythons that swallowed whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked...
...Army soldiers have boots of thick leather, or of greenish-yellow felt, known as Valenkis. Last winter those boots saved them from the fate of thousands of German soldiers who froze to death or were crippled by the cold. This winter Russian boots will walk on the faces of thousands of dead Germans...
When he heard the news from excited Navy Secretary Frank Knox, all that Franklin Roosevelt could utter was an astonished "No!" In their living rooms, on the golf courses, driving in their cars, tens of thousands of profane Americans said: "Why, the yellow bastards!" Said the Hon. Gerald Prentice Nye, senior U.S. Senator from North Dakota, about to address an America First rally in Pittsburgh: "It sounds terribly fishy...