Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program should be started before the fund is completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...
...over twice a day. Coal miners' unions worried about the air blown down their mine shafts. The big city of Manchester (pop. some 700,000) worried about its water, which comes from the edge of Geiger Gulch. Beef cattle sent to market from the region were marked with yellow paint so their thyroids would be destroyed right after slaughter. No one has been damaged yet (except the plant worker who was shaved), but all Britain has had a disquieting look at a kind of accident that may become common in the atomic future...
Hero's Return. When the Braves flew home to Milwaukee immediately after the last game. Burdette was still sputtering with tension -his eyebrows flapped, his forehead furled and flattened, his shoulders seemed to shrug of their own accord, his cigarette ashes fell all over his bright yellow and black necktie. "Hey, Lew, how you feel?" a boy called...
...from the continent's mainland tip. A special warden was assigned to foil escape attempts-at a salary of $86 a month. Jorge took care of that. One night last March the special warden unlocked the prison gates and discreetly disappeared; Jorge and friends got into a waiting yellow Ford station wagon, drove into Chile...
Wood, Water & Wine. Even more important than this elaborately planned water system (which must have been a labor of years for slaves working with primitive bronze tools) was the rubble hauled out of the well. Among the finds: pottery painted in red and yellow with designs of birds, which may force revision of the theory held by many archaeologists that because of Moses' injunction against idolatry ancient Jews shunned imagery. Also unearthed: pottery wine jars (the first found in 67 years of Palestine archaeology), which offer a clue to Palestine's early economy and confirm that...