Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since Chief Yellow Hand went on the warpath had Nebraska seen such an invasion. All week long three candidates in Nebraska's free-for-all presidential primary swept across the rich, rolling cattle-&-wheat country, whooping up the vote. Local air waves throbbed with campaign oratory. Autograph hunters had a field day. One enterprising Lincoln girl named Louise Carter managed to get herself photographed shaking hands with Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen inside three days...
...Again & again the gun fired. The Arabs claimed three armored cars, two trucks for the morning's shooting. An antiquated Jewish biplane, painted yellow, chugged high over the Arab gun position but dropped no bombs...
...land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...away from the cluster of tall buildings which give northwest Kansas City its impressive skyline - a skyline dominated by the 30-story, $6,000,000 city hall, built during the Pendergast days and still much too large for the city's needs. They passed the two-story, yellow brick building at 1908 Main, where Old Tom Pendergast's greedy fingers had pulled the strings. The lights there were still on ; Jim Pendergast's men were measuring their defeat...
...made forests echo the architecture of cathedrals. During World War II he based one exultant canvas on the vapor trails of bombers and fighters overhead, and another, gloomy one, on a moonlit junkyard swimming with wrecked planes. When he was dying, at 57, he painted sunflowers, which turn their yellow disks to the slow geometric...