Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charge No. 1. The Vice President spoke without a prepared text, from nine penciled sheets of notes on yellow, lined paper. He sat alone at a desk in a Washington studio, talking calmly and persuasively in measured, simple language to a radio and television audience estimated at 10 million...
Over the gates of the huge (60,000 students) Sorbonne one morning last month, big yellow posters suddenly appeared for all Paris to see: CLOSED FOR LACK OF FUNDS. That same day, teachers and students went out on strike, milled about the streets, blocked traffic, demonstrated in front of the Bourse du Travail. The Sorbonne, however, was not demonstrating alone. Virtually every lycée (secondary school) and university in France had also closed down...
Historically there is only one possible victory for the Teuton, and that's against The Yellow Horde. On the other hand, this is indeed shallow praise, since the most trivial of European powers can spot the Yellow Horde both nefarious cunning and staggering odds, and still win handily. If the European power happens to be a troop of English bow-men who took a wrong turn at Vienna on the way to a Crusade, the slaughter is appalling. Studios have teetered on the rim of bankruptcy hiring enough extras to present realistically the number of Orientals slain under these circumstances...
When, as in The Black Rose, one Yellow Horde meets another, the one with some perceptible religion will triumph after horrible and chastening suffering. In the forthcoming Genghis Khan, however, the script writers are cast adrift without a hint as to American preference, none of the combatants being particularly religious and all being equally crafty and barbaric. Until the Horde tangles with Europeans near the end, there should be some terrific battles, with the victory to the strong rather than the popular...
Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation...