Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic was uneventful enough to satisfy the most apprehensive bystander. Every 30 minutes, Lieut. Commander Georges Houot and Engineer Pierre-Henri Willm reported by an ultrasonic signaling device: "Tout va bien" (all is well). At 3:23 p.m. a patrolling airplane saw the yellow steel hull break above the surface...
...First of the Blacks" as a "gilded African," and sent 90 ships and 40,000 veterans of the Egyptian campaign to retake Saint-Domingue. By treachery, the French captured Toussaint and shipped him off to France to die in a moutain prison. But in the end, black troops and yellow fever smashed the French for good...
Flashiest items in the show are masses of crowns, earplugs, nose pendants, beakers and breastplates, all done in pure gold but varying in color from silvery to deep yellow. Such treasures lured Pizarro and his conquistadores to Peru, and thereby led to swift and bloody destruction of native culture...
...Garters (Paramount) is probably the first musical in history in which the music can hardly be heard because the Technicolor is so loud. The first scene is all yellow-egg yellow; the sky is yellow and the earth is yellow. Apparently the studio is trying to get across the point that it is a clear...
...turned out to be a phone booth. Well, Oh, there was blue coat again, gleefully whacking his friend on the back. He was holding a large card decorated with a picture of a secretary. Vag strained to see what it said. "I'm just a Working Girl. . ."the yellow letters shrieked. May be they've come up with something, Vag though hopefully. He burrowed past the gray-haired man in front of him and snatched up the secretary card. ". . . Come up and see me work some time," was the punch line...