Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experiences Mrs. Rawlings came to know her neighbors as well as she knew the "toady-frogs, lizards, antses and varmints." Knowing them was easier, on the whole, than learning to share her Eden with snakes. She tried to overcome her fear by playing with a pretty red, black and yellow snake in the garden. She ran it through her fingers like a necklace. She was more terrified than ever when she discovered that it was a deadly coral snake. At last she conquered her fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek...
Three times in three years Lady MacRobert, Massachusetts-born widow of Sir Alexander MacRobert of Tarland, Aberdeenshire, was handed one of the tiny yellow envelopes. Inside each one was a telegram beginning: "The Air Ministry regret...
...dateline, a report of a conversation between Secretary Knox and China's T. V. Soong. Said the dispatch: "In an effort to cheer up the Chinese statesman, Knox patted him on the back and said, 'That's all right, T. V., we'll lick those yellow devils...
...aviation business, Breech is a sprinter. Son of an Ozark blacksmith, he took up accounting, in 1921 won a gold medal for top grades in Illinois State CPA exams. Breech's first real job was auditor for Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Six years later he joined Yellow Truck & Coach. When G.M. took over Yellow in 1925, Breech went along as bookkeeper. In 1939 he was a G.M. vice president...
Paramount's Bahama Passage has one redeeming grace: fathoms of magnificent Technicolored shots made in the Bahamas. They have the authentic tradewind touch: the soapy green of shallow water, the blue-black of deep water, the yellow-white sails of fishing smacks, the paintless clapboard houses, the lassitude of tropic...