Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind? Between TIME covers and his numerous other assignments, Artist Artzybasheff some time ago designed his own version of a U.N. flag (see cut). At least one color from each of the world's flags is used in the rainbow-red (the most common color in flags), orange, yellow, green, light and dark blue-on a white field...
...evening last month a popular, mild-mannered priest, Don Umberto Pessina, was walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...
...yellow primrose...
Uses of Publicity. Clark talks (and sometimes curses) out of the side of his mouth, though his vocabulary of profanity is limited; his favorite epithet, which he shares with Ike Eisenhower, is "ybsob" (code for yellow-bellied s.o.b.). Clark is no intellectual, knows little and cares less about art and literature; friends estimate that his yearly ration of books amounts to two at the most...
...Holbein. But the popular favorite by a day's march was Cranach's 16th-Century Fountain of Youth. His cosily detailed vision of the fountain seemed as real as a park pool. Cranach made people half-believe he had found the place where stooped cripples and trembling yellow hags could bathe and become pink-skinned virgins once again...