Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman frowned. "Sorry," he said." he said, "OI didn't mean to be bitter. I'm just hungry." He slid two chunks of meat onto his yellow plate. "Trouble is... no time...to enjoy food," he stumbled out in un-southern fashion...
...inevitable came that Saturday in 1921 when the yellow-jerseyed "praying Colonels" clinched the game early in the third period on a 32-yard run. It was a bewildered collegiate crowd of 43,000 that went home wondering what the hell was the Centre College...
Paralyzing Pygmies. As the Martian invasion of France proceeded, the invaders became more bizarre. A troup of pygmies in plastic helmets gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed M. Marius Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...
Easy Go. Powell's pressing need for money was explained, in part, by a Damon Runyonesque witness: Wardwell Dexter, onetime bookie commission man, whose yellow, shortsleeved shirt brightened the somber Senate caucus room. Dexter related that Powell made racing bets by phone almost every day, averaging $100 or more daily for a time. Sometimes he did not pay the losses. One day he bet $1,500, and lost. "What was your relationship with Clyde Powell?" he was asked. "Unfortunate," replied Dexter, summing...
...there were two of me." Some of the victims have stuck it out for six days, with only short respites for food. Some, in spite of the $20 wage, have quit after one day. As soon as they leave the cell, the hallucinations stop; the squirrels and little yellow men march away forever. But not for hours do the victims get back to normal. They have headaches, cannot study, lose their skill at handwriting. Sometimes such effects continue for 24 hours...