Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anderson's performance this fall was particularly impressive, because he was out of school the entire spring semester of 1953 with yellow jaundice. He contracted the Illness last Feb. 1, after wrestling four matches for the varsity. Also a lacrosse player his freshman year, Anderson was in bed for ten weeks with the condition and spent another month recuperating at home...
...Vegas, appearing at the Sahara Hotel for $12,500 a week, Christine (ne George) Jorgensen, 27, showed off an engagement ring received from a Washington, D.C. suitor who also sends yellow roses every day. The suitor: willowy (6 ft. 3 in.) Artist Patrick Flanigan, 26, now married but planning a divorce. Flanigan, who painted his way into Christine's affections during 60 hours of portrait sittings, was like any young man in love. "We're just two people trying to find peace and happiness," said he. "She [Christine] is beautiful-and a lady...
...Yale Center of Alcohol Studies sits unobtrusively without any identification--squat but spacious like a bottle of Ballantine's scotch. Undoubtedly built in the 19th century, its four stories have mahogany-toned woodwork and a faded coat of yellow paint, which partially conceals stone, stucco, or something...
Cameras in the Sky. Meanwhile, the helicopters of 1953 are finding new and increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...
...anti-black-market poster for the wartime Netherlands government in exile, depicting four huge men carrying large yellow bags under their arms, the four arms forming a swastika...