Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the prisoners were already seated or spread out exhausted on the grass as he staggered into the assembly point. Each arm was over another prisoner's shoulder, his head wobbled loosely and his dragging feet made erratic lines in the yellow dust. When they let him down at the edge of the circle of prisoners, he breathed in gasps and his glassy eyes in his sunken face looked nowhere...
About 5 a.m. Harrell was awakened by rifle fire near his ear. By the light of the yellow star shells he saw Carter firing away at four Japs who had tried to filter through the line. They lay where they fell, ten feet away...
...COLLEGE in which most other extracurricular organizations will be dead, the redbrick building on the one-way cow-path, 14 Plympton Street, will continue to be a focus of undergraduate life. The punch-bowl will seldom over-run this summer, but typewriters will still pound on yellow copy-paper the news of the University...
...last the litter bearers reached a room in the imperial palace. Yellow-faced and bright-eyed with fever, the poet thought of the names the mob had yelled at him, decided that they were appropriate. With death staring him in the face, he looked back over his life...
However exaggerated Yenan's claims might be, it was clear that their forces had seeped across North China, from the Yellow River to the Shantung Peninsula and down the coast. Though they had been poorly armed in the past (they even used wooden cannon-see cut-which they actually fired from), they now seemed better armed. They had already begun a surreptitious investment of Shanghai, China's biggest city and biggest port, near the mouth of the Yangtze River, control of which carries with it control of most of southern China...