Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public has not grasped the fact that trained professional, mechanical, agricultural or other workers are just as patriotic when performing civilian jobs as they would be if in uniform. . . . If those same persons were in the Army, they would perhaps do much less real good. Fear that the term yellow or slacker may be given them after the war is driving many essential civilians into uniform. I have recently seen a school superintendent, a mathematics instructor, a physician and several essential iron-ore mineworkers, all of whom were not replaceable, join the colors because of this fear. An unthinking public...
...Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling in straw boaters and yellow gloves, it ends four generations later with the bombs blasting Pearl Harbor...
...Sian. In the drizzling rain at the airport he was met by the most important person in North China, Major General Hu Tsung-nan. It is the crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest troops, to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River bend near Sian. The front has been stationary there for three years. If the Japanese ever got bridgeheads, they might then find it easy to conquer Chungking from the north...
...still early morning when Willkie walked through the streets of deserted Tungkwan toward the river's edge. He ducked through a hole and entered the labyrinth of dugouts and trenches which are the strongest Chinese fortification in North China. Communication trenches were cut deep in the yellow ground and covered with logs and earth. They led to a point overlooking the river bend. The trenches fed into concrete rifle and machine-gun emplacements, from which a screen of fire could be dropped on any attempted river crossing. Willkie's burly shoulders did not fit some of the narrow...
...uniform. Thereupon Charlie would crack: "Don't give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment as an unidentified plane zoomed overhead: "Here they come, fellows," cracked Charlie, "those yellow-belly bastards. I'll mow 'em down!" Posing behind an advanced gun emplacement, Charlie observed: "I can't see any Japs, but I can smell...