Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have tried it once; those who talk of it, and especially if they do so with fascination; those who have lost interest in things they once highly prized. "Troubles, and even illness, actually help to prevent suicide. There's nothing like a few fleas to keep a yellow dog from brooding over the fact that he is a yellow...
Strange hallucinations, like waking dreams, creep into their minds. The students see patterns of dots or lines. Then, as the empty hours drag on, livelier visions appear. They may see rows of little yellow men with black caps and open mouths, or a procession of squirrels with sacks on their backs marching across the snow. The students have reported seeing prehistoric animals, weird cities, a pair of disembodied hands coming out of the ground. One student saw a set of gigantic false teeth floating down a river on a raft...
...conversation was light, with no shoptalk allowed. Afterwards, Foster Dulles got back to work, scanning radiograms, planning details of his Bonn and London discussions. By 9 p.m. he was snugly bedded down in his blacked-out cabin at the rear of the plane. Beside him, as always, were his yellow tablet and pencil, ready for midnight thoughts. Usually, Dulles reads himself to sleep with whodunits, but on the way to Europe he had no need for a soporific...
...Letterpress, which requires four printings-red, yellow, blue. black-on coated paper, permits vast quantity...
...reason why they are winning lies in India's poverty and ignorance. Another reason is racial: after centuries of white colonialism, the brown man and the yellow man are still moving away from the West. Yet, in Professor Redding's view, the No. i culprit is Nehru-style neutralism. Convinced of their moral superiority, India's intellectuals are too busy supporting "a posture of national rectitude, neutrality and innocence" to pay any attention to the Communist danger. Tyrants won't attack us, is their attitude. We're too good and kind...