Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four days and four nights, it had rained in Kyushu. A swirling, kingdom-come downpour streamed down the mountain spine to the narrow coastal plain, spilling out the tiny rivers into a torrent of yellow foam; it took the huts and the houses, the roads and the railroads, the bridges and the viaducts; it brought down landslides to crush the upland villages. Countless thousands were marooned on islands of high ground, perched in quivering treetops, watching and fearful as the mud-churning waters flowed past. Rubbing her prayer beads, an old lady said: "I have lived a long time...
...foremost collectors of glass paperweights, Mrs. Evangeline H. Bergstrom, 81, Neenah, Wis., author of Old Glass Paper weights (Crown, 1940: $7.50), gives some point ers on how to distinguish an ordinary weight from the real thing: 1) glass should not be too yellow, should not contain too many bubbles; 2) no scratches should show; 3) base should be smooth - only modern weights have rough, frost ed base...
...really living. Modern homes have nothing on this." Her roommate, Mrs. Helen Sigmund, 26, agreed. Tired for the moment of looking through the plate-glass sliding doors at the shrub-covered hillside above Los Angeles' famed Sunset Boulevard, she simply reached up and pulled a switch. Automatically, yellow cloth curtains rippled across, closing in the room. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "We'll be spoiled rotten by the time they take us home...
...fast, high-spirited Yellow Rose of Texas...
...Yellow Rose of Texas...