Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astonishingly, he sold six Stories Toto Told Me to the Yellow Book, a quarterly...
...stories, the agent of law & order, the unhappy cop or bumbling sheriff, who bit the most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...
...first South African to be appointed Governor General, the late Sir Patrick Duncan. He hobbled into the location's filth-laden alleys supported by Manilal Gandhi, 60-year-old son of the patron saint of all passive resisters: Mahatma Gandhi. Both men wore the yellow, green and black rosette of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), which preaches racial justice but deplores the violent solutions of its Communist outriders...
...places, says the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., are the bedroom, kitchen and stairs: "The much-maligned bathroom [is] a relatively unimportant factor." ¶When Rancher Jack E. Johnson of Santa Rosa, N. Mex. took his wife Paula 20, to Santa Fe, doctors knew that she was doomed by acute yellow atrophy of the liver, doubted that they could save her unborn offspring. They tried anyway, and just before Mrs. Johnson died they delivered, by Caesarean section, three boys, each around 3¾ lbs. This week, the triplets were doing fine in incubators. ¶More teeth are lost from pyorrhea than...
...more than 1,000,000 judo athletes) joined the federation and Risei Kano, son of judo's founder, became the new president. *In judo hierarchy, contestants are graded by an intricate system. Novices wear white belts. Then, through about two years' training, the novice judoka progresses through yellow, orange, green, blue and brown belts. From brown to the coveted black takes another year. There are ten grades of black belt, starting with first dan (i.e., grade). Sixth dan is the highest competitive rank. Higher dans are reserved for judo masters. No European ranks higher than fifth...