Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christian hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. Then, after midnight, Gandhi's youngest son Devadas (who insisted that Gandhi be cremated, as he had wished) helped wash the body. He and Gandhi's secretary Pyarelal then wrapped the body in pure white khadi. They put a yellow paste of sandalwood and water on his face...
Facing Stalin in the long, vaulted, white, brown and yellow Andreevsky Hall, 1,300 deputies sat at school-bench desks. Round-eyed, shaven-pated Russians in business suits sat beside slant-eyed Uzbeks and Tadjiks in embroidered tyubeteiki (skull caps). They were handed the biggest budget in Soviet history: 387.9 billion rubles ($74 billion). The military would get 17%, compared with 18% of a 371 billion ruble budget...
Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
...month were the changes made? Medical histories are footnote deep with the names of men who made the spectacular goat leaps to better man's health: Lister for his development of antiseptic surgery, Horace Wells and William Morton for their discovery of anesthesia, Walter Reed for taming yellow fever. More modern surgeons and technicians added bits & pieces to medical knowledge that were less dramatic. Examples...
Inflater. Chicago's Leaf Brands, Inc. began marketing bubble gum in colors-red, yellow, blue. By chewing two or three pieces of "Rain-bio" at the same time, said the announcement, children will be able to blow bubbles "in all the delicious colors of the rainbow...