Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compared to Prophet Jones himself, his custom-built beige Cadillac seemed drab and commonplace. Detroit's James F. Jones. Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, the Dominion of God. Inc., was wearing a $235 light brown suit, yellow checked vest, yellow shoes, red socks and red tie. Even more arresting were his gold-handled cane, the topaz earring on his left ear. the diamond, ruby and topaz rings on his left hand, the diamond and topaz bracelets and heavy gold chain on his left wrist. Prophet Jones always wears his jewelry on the left. He explains...
...wheat-harvesting time on the Canadian prairies last week, but in many a field the wheat was dull brown instead of the normal harvest yellow. Fostered by cloudy, wet weather, an epidemic of rust fungus had ravaged Canada's wheat crop. Between the grain rust and bad weather, the 1954 harvest has shrunk to an estimated 370 million bushels-36% below 1953 and 44% below...
...After a plantation overseer died of jungle yellow fever, carried by monkeys and mosquitoes, Trinidad (British West Indies) began mass inoculation of its 669,000 inhabitants...
...Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with the famed pre-World War II appeasing "Cliveden Set." The tabloid Daily Sketch called the Laborites "The Yellow Travelers...
...rock the needle moved again. Then the light dawned. Says he: "I was sitting on a solid chunk of uranium ore." Pick, figuring it had rolled down from the cliff above him, scrambled up the rock face, chipping off pieces of rock as he went: "It was all beautiful yellow-orange-colored ore." He staked out a claim and then, to save his feet, fashioned a crude raft to carry him downriver to civilization. The raft upset, dumped Pick and his belongings into the river. Starting out on foot again, he lived for four days on dried milk and oatmeal...