Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, in a crowded, angry House of Commons, the storm broke. Though yellow linen blinds shaded the open windows, the atmosphere was like a, hothouse. Majority Leader Herbert Morrison took off his spectacles to wipe his eyes and forehead. Spruce David Eccles on the Tory bench discreetly eased his tie. Cripps looked comfortable and unperturbed when he described the plan in a short statement. Twenty M.P.s leaped up to cross-examine...
...torn Yellow River valley, "China's Sorrow" threatened to burst the dikes held by both armies. The alarmed Red radio mixed propaganda with its pleading: "It is impossible to complete dike repair work because of constant Nationalist raids . . . We request Nationalist troops and air forces to cease their obstruction...
...turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that roars like a giant blowtorch. The roar increases to thunder as the turbine gathers speed. Then it diminishes slightly, masked by a strange, high snarl that is felt rather than heard. This is "ultrasonic" sound...
...Toward dawn our guide led us to the rim of a deep hollow, blanketed with yellow kunai grass. At the bottom were three dilapidated board shacks, before one of which a woman puttered over her morning chores. As Stafford led the squad crawling down into the hollow, the woman glanced up and shrieked. Three armed men burst from the house and fled for an opposite hill...
Into Washington last week trooped the first trade commission ever to come to the U.S. from Tibet. The five members of the commission wore eye-catching yellow brocade kimonos (over regular summer-weight suits) as they sat down to discuss their business with the Department of Commerce...