Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the richest and strangest of the sea changes are those that afflict the colors. At 15 ft., red turns pink; at 40 ft., it becomes black. Orange disappears at the same depth. Yellow lasts until about 120 ft., where it begins to turn green. Below 25 ft. color loses about half its value. Once, at 150 ft., Cousteau cut his hand. The blood spurted out?green. At 55 ft. the blood turned dark brown, and back at the surface it was red. Cousteau has included more than 100 excellent underwater photos in the book, about 20 of them...
...bought the course two years ago and set up housekeeping in a pink stucco, remodeled caddy house just off the practice putting green. Babe takes her housewifely chores as seriously as her golf. She designed the modern, push-button kitchen which, like the dining room is painted a violent yellow. "Kinda loud," Babe admits offhandedly, "but you get used...
Long Knives. Last week hill farmers (growers of coffee, sugar and corn) and their wives crowded into Marsella, taking their preschool children for inoculations. All wore their Sunday best, the women in bright yellow, green or blue rayon dresses with black shawls, most of them in sneakers instead of sandals, and the men in white capes or ponchos and carrying long, narrow-bladed machetes...
Luncheon was ending when a German military convoy drove into Oradour. A few curious Frenchmen left the tables to watch the helmeted soldiers dismount. Two yellow and green camouflaged tanks took up a position in front of the 15th century church of Oradour. Then old Jean Depierrefiche, the town blacksmith who was also the town crier, went through the streets calling on all inhabitants to assemble at the market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came...
...last week, Curator Poisson's workmen had carefully uncovered 150 ft. of yellow stone facade, including the entire center section and part of the left wing. With 3,000,000 francs voted by the Seine provincial council, Poisson was at work numbering each stone before dismantling the facade and rebuilding it as a historic monument in the park at Sceaux. Still missing: Louis' table volante. Reported Curator Poisson sadly: "I even crept down into the sewers on all fours, but we found nothing...