Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flowers of the desert stretched across Arizona; Picacho Pass, where the only far western encounter of the Civil War was fought, was splotched with pale yellow poppies, blue lupins, red Indian paint brush...
Down South, Atlanta was decked with the soft pink bloom of magnolia, the white tracery of "breath-of-spring" shrubs, the yellow islands of jonquils in deep green grass. Hopeful fishermen ringed Atlanta's Piedmont Park Lake; but they never caught anything. On farms, fresh-turned furrows lay brick-red in the sun; farmers planting corn, cotton and peanuts shouted at their mules...
...flopped their ungainly wings, carrying new twigs to the slovenly nests where they have lived for generations. In river-bottom gumbo fields, farm boys trotted behind the plows, picking up angle worms from the fresh furrows. Old William Allen White waxed poetic in his Emporia Gazette over the first yellow crocuses on the Y.W.C.A. lawn. Emporia farmers noted with satisfaction that the first pig litters averaged three more than last year...
...Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches and yellow marble columns. The surrounding building is a mammoth jewel cabinet of teak and rosewood and gold. Sir Stafford would find ample and luxurious space for meditation in one of its 54 bedrooms...
...very quick in knocking the everlasting daylights out of Japan, and Hearst began to do a series in his column on the history of Japan. Said the man who once thundered against the "Yellow Peril": White men had taught the Japs the "mysterious medicine" of firearms. His moral: "And now, friends and fellow citizens, we 'barbarians' are being given a taste of our own 'mysterious medicine' by the Japanese-the just reward for exploiting them...