Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill the Bandit was a young fellow, 22 years old, with nice blond hair, and a yellow sport shirt. He was out on parole and he was polite; he leaned forward every time he took a bite, and it did not require a genius to see that he was doing so to keep the tomato sauce from dripping on his shirt. But all of a sudden he jumped up and left. When he came back he had a pistol in one hand and was herding before him six scared-looking men he had rounded up at the entrance...
...Baldy the Chinese displayed big cardboard Picasso "peace doves," ran up red, yellow and pink flags, and erected on the crest a huge sign proclaiming "celebration for the signing of the armistice." While G.I.s ogled. Chinese and North Korean girls, in pigtails and with slacks rolled above the knee, sang plaintive songs into hillside microphones and invited their audience to "come on over and talk...
...late Boston Transcript, a feature writer, with a fondness for using three words where one would do, once referred to bananas as "elongated yellow fruit." This periphrasis so fascinated Charles W. Morton, now the associate editor of the Atlantic, that he began collecting examples of "Elongated Yellow Fruit" writing. Friends on newspapers and magazines have joined in the game, send him the worst examples they can find for the Atlantic Bulletin, a chatty monthly promotion letter (circ. 5,000). Samples...
...honest and barbed-wiry vignettes that had to be shorn away. But no one will miss the book's wealth of pointless profanity. Through its chill professional eye, the camera sees the persons of the drama more clearly than Jones did, and still does not wear too yellow a filter when it looks-far less bitterly than the book-at the "Pineapple Army...
Encore. In Kansas City, Kans., released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving a three-year term for auto theft, Edward H. Diller spotted a shiny yellow convertible, drove it off, 48 hours later was arrested and sentenced to a year and a day at Leavenworth, for auto theft...