Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trujillo understood just how to deal with this sort of business. Yellow-eyed Julio Ortega Frier, his Washington Ambassador, broadcast that "3,000 Communist revolutionaries" were training in eastern Cuba, fixing to invade Trujilloland. Five days later he reported that 1,000 of them had already set sail in two landing barges and a corvette. But nothing happened...
...yellow clapboard house in Grandview, "Momma" Truman kept to the small, daily rituals of a lifetime. Whenever Harry could, he stopped by. Always, when she bade him goodbye, she said: "Now, Harry, you behave yourself." He always answered: "You raised me right. You know I'll always behave." He liked to say about her: "They don't make them like her any more...
...Quebec City it was a great day. Flags and bunting had been hung from public buildings and churches; prominent among the decorations were the yellow and white colors of the papacy and nostalgic fleurs-de-lis. Bells of 27 Roman Catholic churches pealed a welcome. From behind grey clouds the sun burst forth, as the car bearing the tall, 42-year-old archbishop-designate, the Most Rev. Maurice Roy, drove through the crowded streets. Women pushed to the car's side, held up their children for a blessing. Msgr. Roy had arrived for his consecration as the eleventh archbishop...
...apiece) for eight volumes of Herbier Général de I'Amateur. Most were of wild flowers, less than half of them native to France. There were scabiosa from the Caucasus, pink periwinkles from Madagascar, sow thistle from the Canary Islands, chrysanthemums and yellow jasmine from China, lilacs from western Asia, and even some California wild flowers collected by a Russian expedition, taken to St. Petersburg and eventually transplanted to Paris. Even in reproduction, no hotelkeeper had anything like...
...Yellow. By the third round, it seemed as if Graziano was to be spared the unpleasantness of seeing the terrible things that were happening to him. After a flurry of Zale punches had sent him down for no count, his right eye was closed to a slit, his left blinded by blood. Rocky-who well remembered that after last year's fight some sportswriters had called him yellow-kept groping forward, swinging wild punches and dripping blood on Zale. Between rounds, the Illinois Athletic Commission's doctor looked at Rocky Graziano's eyes, decided...