Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slight temperature for a month, and he had severe pain in his right hip. After four days in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital, he flew home to Cincinnati and checked in at Holmes Hospital. There, one evening last week, he wrapped a blue robe around his bright yellow pajamas and dictated a speech. The next night, in the brilliant Hall of Mirrors of Cincinnati's Netherland Plaza hotel, Taft's second son, Lawyer Robert Taft Jr., stepped before a dinner of the National Conference of Christians & Jews and read his father's text. The words...
...19th century England, parents usually did-Leonard Woods Newman would have been a London tobacco broker. Apprenticed at 18, he began his career dutifully enough. Then, one warm June morning as he pedaled his bicycle to the Bexley railroad station, he fell in love-with a swarm of Clouded Yellow butterflies...
With no relief, 34-year-old Bill Vukovich drove through the sweltering afternoon. Yellow caution lights slowed him down when others ran into trouble, but he did not lose the lead a second time. He swung his mouse-grey car under the checkered winner's flag three hours and 53 minutes after the race began. He had averaged 128.74 m.p.h.. second fastest time in the speedway's 52-year history, and had earned prizes worth...
...same narrow belts ("narrowies") for the young boys and the same "broadies" for the older ones. When a boy becomes a "Grecian," i.e., gets ready to try for a scholarship to a university, he gets 14 large buttons and a coat with upturned velvet cuffs. The coats have yellow linings that date back to 1683, when the "lynnings . . . as well as ye petticoats" were dyed to discourage vermin...
...football games, dressed in the loud yellow jacket of the Tigers, the professor was usually on hand to lead the cheering. At dances he acted as "bouncer," at elections as "policeman." Sometimes he could be seen mowing his lawn in his underwear, sometimes taking a constitutional at 3 a.m., and sometimes wandering through the Southern Missouri hills, cape and all, looking for Indian mounds...