Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luck, made their way over the mountain passes in freezing (24° below zero) weather to a monastery only ten miles from the Indian border. When they returned to Lhasa seven months later, the Dalai Lama was no longer the power he had been. The Communists gave him ten yellow limousines and a telephone (number: Lhasa 1), which could be connected with Peking. They filled his household with Communists, in 1954 "invited" him to Peking for some special tutoring, little by little passed on more and more of his duties to the Panchen Lama, their 21-year-old puppet...
Telephones jingled in five Baghdad embassies. A procession of limousines, national flags aflutter from their fenders, drove up outside Iraq's yellow brick Foreign Ministry. One by one, the ambassadors of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad. When they had left, the U.S.'s gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told...
...hour on the stand, the Senate voted by two-thirds majority to cut him off. Declaring angrily that "this is the shame of Colombia when a man can't defend himself," Rojas clamped on his hat and left. Two days later, the verdict was read to the empty yellow chair reserved for the defendant. Next week the sentence will be handed down. Maximum penalty from the Senate: loss of political rights, e.g., the right to vote, and his pensions as former general and President. Upon review, Colombia's Supreme Court can also add a prison sentence...
...Flemish sailor" hat. which is still widely copied, from the tight-fitting, brimmed hat in a 15th century painting by Roger van der Weyden. She designed a line of successful "chessmen" hats after seeing a show of old chessmen at New York's Metropolitan Museum. She has derived yellow bonnets from Van Gogh, beige pillboxes set with seashells from Gauguin, bright-colored squares from Painter Mondrian...
...strides "Big Daddy." This time he is Boss Finley (Sidney Blackmer) a demogogic Southern politician, and he wears a yellow dressing gown instead of Burl Ives's white one. The first Big Daddy psychologically emasculated his son; this one threatens Chance Wayne with physical castration. It seems that Heavenly, the Boss's daughter, contracted a disease from Chance years ago and had to have a hysterectomy. In scenes of bogus dramaturgy, Boss Finley and his children snarl revelations at each other (e.g., he keeps a mistress) that should have been common family knowledge for years. Toward play...