Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey day, while Santa Fe's celebrants slept, a little group of mourners gathered in the yellow old Denver and Rio Grande Western depot to watch the train pull out. It was the last run of the "Chili Line" and the end of the D.&R.G.W.'s famous track-the narrow-gauge line from Santa Fe, 125 miles to Antonito, Colo...
...this report, to demand: i) U.S.-British recognition of Manchukuo; 2) U.S.-British recognition of Japan's special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition in principle of the Greater East Asia...
...books that were small, cheap, popularly written. He supported himself through publishing, cleared $150,000 to spread his cause. Not all the 400 books he wrote or published were religious-one was Primitive Physick, a book of home remedies (example: "The Head Ake: Apply to each Temple the thin yellow Rind of a lemon, newly pared off") that went through more than 40 editions...
Thousands of yellow-clad priests escorted the jar through the streets of Cambodia's ancient capital, Pnom-Penh, to a towering, shining new pagoda. The body was placed in a gleaming gold-&-silver catafalque. As plaintive music sounded, the new, handsome young King Sianouk of Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules...
...noon hour last week two slim, trim, pretty girls, with yellow hair and peach-&-cream skin, met in the cafeteria on the roof of Washington's new Social Security Building, lunched together for the first time...