Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow belly...
...come at a bad moment. The Coke company had just warned the strikers to "keep moving" and had sent for a policeman to keep the picketers off the grass around the building. In retaliation, the union had countered by refusing to allow employees to go home in yellow Coke trucks. "It's this kind of thing that causes violence," the local president warned...
When India got its independence from the British in 1947, so did Sikkim. For a while the Sikkimese tried to run their own show. But one day in 1949, peasants in their high boots and yakskin suits surrounded the Maharajah's yellow palace at Gangtok (pop. 7,000), a capital of doll-like houses with blue pagoda roofs, perched precariously 6,000 ft. up a mountain. In a bloodless revolution, they got their demands for an elected national council and an end to tax collection by landlords. But after a 29-day experiment in democracy, the Maharajah dispatched...
Externally, the structure presents a deceiving image. Warren House is a small, pleasantly yellow New England building, picturesque perhaps, but no more so or less so than innumerable other New England buildings. Except for its color it would be, in fact, totally inconspicuous. Yet, this same building has played host to romantic intrigues of the pre-Civil War era, to a drama of exceptional human pathos, and to one of Harvard's largest and most influential departments...
...rambling, yellow-walled palace at Rabat, red-liveried Negro bandsmen of the royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence...