Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the provinces have also displayed an alarming taste for pink, yellow and patterned shirts which may force the old guard to follow the new maxim: that no style-conscious man should wear a white shirt before the sun sets. In addition to the color change, veteran haberdashers in the square also predict a switch away from the tab and round collar. The merchants recall the previous short visits of these styles, pointing out that they have never lasted more than a season. Their current demise is tearfully anticipated and already provided for by the major shirt manufacturers...
...economic as well as social. The workers have two stomachs. One contains food for their personal use; the other holds community food. When two ants meet, they are apt to press their mouths together for a transfer of food. This act is so common that if a few yellow ants are fed on red-dyed honey, the entire colony soon turns red. Eventually, every ant in the community gets fed, although many of them have had nothing to do with foraging for food...
...Livingstone's desk is a little yellow notice, announcing the change. It is signed by the resident tutors...
...combined clicks (he is taking nearly 2 billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
Live Forever. The visitors came from universities all over the world. There was Oxford's red, Hamburg's blue, Padua's ermine, the Sorbonne's yellow, white tie and tails from Harvard and Princeton. In the face of such a gathering, Salamanca should have been pleased-except for the irrepressible ghost of Miguel de Unamuno...