Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flatlands of China's Honan Province, near Chengchow, a tiny rivulet of muddy water oozed into a dried-up channel and meandered sluggishly toward Pohai Gulf, some 400 miles to the northeast. The rivulet, a man-made branch of the Yellow River, was the first fruit of the giant flood-control effort to thrust "China's Sorrow" back into its pre-1938 bed. In Shanghai, UNRRA Engineer Oliver J. Todd, director of the project (TIME, June 17), contemplated news of the trickle with mixed emotions. "Todd Almighty" knew that this was no dream come true; in fact...
...street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail," and "all men . . ." Its final edict was simple: Vag was to be present at a certain place at a certain time...
Among the best of the "open" Borstals is Lowdham Grange, near Nottingham. Designed for backward delinquents of 18 and 19, Lowdham has no locks and bars (except for two small punishment rooms). In their blue shorts and jackets, with house neckties of red, blue or yellow, the Lowdham boys might almost be mistaken for public school products. Housemasters get to know the boys individually, appoint house leaders and captains to keep order. The boys learn such things as cooking, shoe-repairing, painting, reading...
...time he gets the bad news, along comes the Old Man himself, with a delegation of junketing Congressmen. The Old Man, famed Major General Kane, is so unnerved by circumstances that he almost forgets to put out his well-known jaw for photographers. A noisy Southern Congressman in yellow shoes, lavender shirt and white felt hat is highly indignant at the losses...
Choice seats for the Princeton basketball game tonight are still in abundance, Frank O. Lunden, H.A.A. ticket manager, announced yesterday, as he urged annual ticket holders to file their second-yellow-ticket coupons at the H.A.A. office before 5 o'clock today...