Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over which I had retreated in 1938 with Chinese armies driven back upon Hankow by the great Japanese force seeking to capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down his bombsight...
High behind the thronging shipyards, docks and naval works of Hampton Roads, Va. stands a bleak hillside cemetery. In the yellow Virginia soil, in row on row of new-heaped graves (already there are over 50), lie the bodies of German U-boat crews...
...printed in this morning's Scuttle-butt, all S-O's are scheduled to take a series of shots and vaccines before they leave in late August. Each man is to be given two tetanus shots, three typhoid injections, one yellow fever shot, and a small pox vaccination...
...police became impatient, suggested surrender. Daudet barricaded himself in L'Action offices, surrounded by hysterical young members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Henchmen). For three days the Camelots hurled jeers and inkpots at the police. Then dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe appeared in his yellow gloves, backed by several hundred gendarmes and three fire engines. Daudet yielded and was ensconced in a comfortable cell in the Prison de la Sante, where he was permitted meals prepared by Mme. Daudet...
...stimulate U.S. medical research in Latin America, Journalist Charles Morrow Wilson has published an account of its diseases, called Ambassadors in White (Henry Holt; $3.50). The book contains biographies of U.S. yellow-fever "ambassadors" (Gorgas, Reed, Finlay, Noguchi) and strange tales of native doctors. Its descriptions of unfamiliar tropical diseases may be startling to U.S. readers. Some of them...