Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-eight minutes later, press-service teletypes across the U.S. were clattering with news of the conference, copy boys were ripping off the white sheets of the Associated Press and the yellow of the United Press, and editors began making over their front pages. Jim Hagerty had done well; only two news-conference questions touched on areas that Hagerty had not anticipated. One was whether President Eisenhower planned to accompany Mamie to the May launching of the first nuclear surface ship at Camden, NJ. (Ike's answer: "I don't know anything about it.") The other was whether...
...intimate yet princely style. To oversee the construction of his villas (as many as four going up at the same time), Palladio floated leisurely up and down the Brenta on a splendid, gilded barge, equipped with a studio for his ten to twelve apprentices, shaded by a yellow-and-black linen awning. The villas that resulted won in later years the admiration of English Architects Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren and Lord Burlington, as well as American Thomas Jefferson, who used Palladio designs as prototypes for his own Monticello and his master plan for the University of Virginia...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...
...children of the world, Red and yellow, black and white...
...Railway Express truck pulled up at a big yellow brick house on Chicago's North Drake Avenue one morning last week, and as the deliveryman handed over a package, he said knowingly, "Here's another one for the doc." Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein took the package out to the garage, set it on his workbench and stripped the wrappings. With a screwdriver, the doctor pried the top off a shiny new quart can. In it, well preserved by wrappings of formaldehyde-soaked gauze, was a human brain...