Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spaces between the clean, stone cliffs of buildings seemed like enormous, breeze-blown gardens of women's hats-they bloomed for blocks in a frothy, flowering profusion of red, yellow, blue and green...
Under a warm sun, Stratford-upon-Avon was stirring to life last week. White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered. But for the Warwickshire town's 13,000 citizens there was a surer sign of the season: the wheels were turning again in Stratford's $3,000,000-a-year tourist industry...
...margarine legislation during the last two years; the Senate has a bill before it now to kill the Federal oleo tax. It has been a hard and unusual fight. A recent House measure wanted to give oleo an attractive deep Sunkist orange hue. An eminent lobbyist has stated that yellow is "butter's own color," and that if margarine makers wanted a color they could damn well dye their stuff green. The oleo-makers retaliated to this with a barrage of bright yellow advertisements. One southerner fought heroically for butter until he found that his constituents were growing the chief...
...their own stuff half the year. And they really have little to worry about. An English newspaper went around feeding butter and margarine to blindfolded housewives and found that most of the women preferred butter anyway. A lot of people would benefit from untaxed oleo; it is about time yellow margarine got a friendly pat from the government...
...than three months ago jammed with shouting soldiers and wailing refugees, a lone coolie sweeps his twig broom. Outside, street lights flicker wanly until 11 p.m. Then they go out. After midnight (curfew hour), the streets are deserted save for rifle-toting municipal gendarmes in shabby black uniforms and yellow armbands, who shamble along preceded by a youngster holding a lemon-colored paper lantern...