Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small gilt-and-yellow ambassadors' lobby in the Hotel Matignon could not hold all the newsmen who had come. Some crowded into adjoining rooms; others stood in the courtyard outside, to which loudspeakers carried the cadenced voice. It was Charles de Gaulle's first press conference in five months, and vastly different from the last one, when he appeared surrounded by guards, and the streets of Paris were heavily policed against the threat of parachutists attempting a coup...
Starts's Olds is a fancy product that is two-thirds the size of the old Olds, comes in black, golden yellow, and fiesta red, has an automatic gear shift. Speed and gas mileage are similar to its rival. Cost: $1,195 f.o.b. Ft. Lauderdale...
...Flower Drum Song's main trouble does not lie with its Oriental performers; like most Yellow Perils, this one is a put-up job by a group of all-too scrutable Caucasians. --JULIUS NOVICK
...Buffalo Bill's Grave, and it should be kept free from the stench of the local refuse, if for no other reason, simply to preserve its attractiveness for the tourists of America who must have some place to drive to during vacation-time. Besides, modern techniques require big yellow bulldozers to ply dump areas throughout the day, and the continual pilgrimage of trucks and trailers, with the bulldozers snorting through the pines like prehistoric beasts, would be a grotesque way to shatter the placid hours of this venerable landmark...
...Home. The Met survived the Depression on the box-office pull of Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior. Now doing better business than ever under General Manager Rudolf Bing, the yellow brewery ranks with La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper as one of the Big Three of the operatic world. The Met is hampered by a physical plant that was antiquated in 1910 (to be abandoned in three years for the Met's new home in Lincoln Center) and by the difficulties of competing for top talent with the state-supported European houses. But in addition to its European stars...