Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yellow Market. Cleveland hotels were taking reservations for the World Series. Denverites could talk of nothing except the Denver Bears, who had won 23 of their last 29 games. Fresh-water fishermen were experimenting with a new casting rod, a 22-inch contrivance of spring steel called a "stubcaster." Beaches were jammed everywhere-even near New York, where health authorities made grave tests for dangerous germs from open sewers. Oklahoma Citians tried something new in outdoor entertainment -square dances held on the concrete apron outside the municipal auditorium...
Pants & Stomach. Yellow skullcaps with propellers on top began appearing on the heads of New York and Pennsylvania delegates. A Powers model, carrying a Truman-for-President sign, edged on to the floor in front of the speakers' stand, where she was ogled and photographed. But the delegates listened to the speeches. The hall had taken on a look of purpose...
Across the road, the seven-story Daiwa department store began to crumble, swaying crazily. Ripping, cracking and crashing sounds came from it as sections within collapsed. Yellow dust rose over the city, and suddenly a strong, crazy wind blew up, first from one direction, then another. After a moment's silence came the small voices of human beings-shouts and cries which rose into a din throughout the city. At 5:27 a thin grey wisp of smoke crawled up behind the sagging department store. It grew larger. The fire had begun...
...likes best. "With me," says he, "my palette is an orchestra. I have all my colors before me, and I play with them. With my stick, I direct them onto the canvas. The black is the bass and the blue is the piano. I say to the yellow, 'I am coming for you,' and to the pink, 'Stay quiet.' Yes, when I paint I am the conductor-like Toscanini...
...Yellow fever...