Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks now the Communists have worked tirelessly and with much success to chop up China's communications and paralyze Government progress into North China. The Chinese railway net work north of the Yangtze River is cut in innumerable places. The only important road still operating north of the Yellow River is the Tsinan-Tientsin-Peiping line...
...armies, mostly U.S.-equipped and U.S.-trained, will have arrived in North China. This week Peiping, Tientsin, and Shantung Province were seeing their first "regulars" in eight years. A wave of optimism, in refreshing contrast with the cynicism of the Western World, has been flooding over China, like the Yellow River at crest. But like that mighty, fertilizing stream, it can make for prosperity or sorrow...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz got a special Navy Day bow from the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...
...Worlds. Argentina lived last week, as it had for the past century, in two worlds. One world was the cosmopolitan, factory-packed port of Buenos Aires. The other was the land of rich green pasturage, yellow grainfields and brown, newly-turned earth which stretched west to the Andes, south to Patagonia. It was what Englishmen called the "camp." as vast as the whole of the U.S. east of the Mississippi...
...Picasso still life unhelpfully entitled Painting, in white, yellow, pale blue and black, showed that Old Master Picasso still wielded a powerful brush. Forbidden to exhibit during the occupation, he painted every day. Picasso's message to U.S. artists: "Tell them to work hard - like...