Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concert hall of Minsk's Red Army House was packed, as for the premiere of a Shostakovich symphony. From the balcony seven baby spotlights painted the orchestra pit an eerie yellow. There was a nervous clearing of throats. But no baton was raised. Tonight the program was a trial of German war criminals, and the conductor was the public prosecutor...
...record. The women clerks in the Air Ministry who test fogs by searching from the roof for 14 well-known landmarks (like Nelson's Column), reported that they could just discern "Object X," a building 30 yards away. Weather bugs, who call fogs by colors, dubbed this a "yellow"-worse than a "white" but not as bad as a "black...
...Pablo Picasso's 1930 semi-abstract Crucifixion, a crowded arrangement of pea-green, red and yellow limbs and lumps, in which Christ's face is a tiny knot of pain in the center of a doorknob-shaped skull...
Last week, wearing a bright yellow sweater and a sky-blue dress (by special permission of the Navy), Captain Mac gave a newsman a glimpse of the postwar course she plans to steer. She was full of what the WAVES had taught her. Said she: "I am more enthusiastic than ever about liberal education. I found that those people who were best able to adjust themselves to the difficulties of life in the service were those who had a broad educational background. This may not be true of men in combat. I don't know anything about that...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp., it was an event, too. But in the sprawling cluster of factory buildings, still in their muddy green and yellow camouflage of war, everyone was too busy to cheer. On the long assembly lines, workers were hustling at wartime pace to turn out Constellations for others of the world's demanding airlines...