Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When stung, stand still and look: the antidote is always found with it, namely the leaf of the yellow dock. The cure is instant...
Along the malarial marshes and through the tropical lowland jungle ride Venezuela's green-uniformed soldiers of health. From their gaudy yellow trucks they dismount at the doorways of palm-thatched huts to spray walls and dark corners with DDT-guns. In two years of spraying, the malaria fighters have cleared the mosquito from 200,000 houses and all but wiped out malaria in one-third of the nation...
...expanse of pale yellow wall separated two harshly sunlit windows which faced the bed. Between these windows stood the woman. She did not notice Joel, for she was staring across the room at an ancient bureau: there, on top of a lacquered box, was a bird, a bluejay perched so motionless it looked like a trophy. The woman turned and closed the only open window; then, with prissy little sidling steps, she started forward...
Your article about Mrs. George Morgan [TIME, Dec. 22] and the accompanying cut is both conceived and written in extraordinarily poor taste. Your willingness to accept the evidence of a cheap Japanese novelist is right in keeping with the tradition of yellow journalism...
...wish I could paint more," Hopper says. "I get sick of reading and going to the movies. I'd much rather be painting all the time, but I don't have the impulse. Of course I do dozens of sketches for oils-just a few lines on yellow typewriter paper-and then I almost always burn them. If I do one that interests me, I go on and make a painting, but that happens only two or three times a year...