Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joint organization was set up and named Amilcar (after Hannibal's father). While diplomats attended London conferences and took appeals to the U.N., the British-French forces gathered on Cyprus. Tanks were painted sand-yellow, occupation currency was printed, plans were made for the requisitioning of civilian air transports. The target was Egypt; the plans at this stage had nothing to do with Israel...
Thus Sportswriter Lenny Anderson described the grim days when losing coaches quail before alumni complaints and. in their wishful dreams, head south for a job at Georgia Tech, the school that has yet to fire a coach. But if the Yellow Jackets have a happy habit of hanging on to their coaches, the coaches have a happy habit of fielding winning teams. Last week, just to keep the record straight, Coach Robert Lee Dodd's unbeaten engineers eased past Duke's Blue Devils...
Ethereal Delights. Rattlesnake venom, says Klauber, has, at various times, been considered a cure for epilepsy, bronchitis, pneumonia, neuralgia, lumbago, sciatica, cholera, yellow fever, leprosy and elephantiasis. Pills made out of the poison glands ground up and mixed with cheese were once prescribed for palsy and typhus; they also give a feeling of "ethereal delights." Rattlesnake oil was once a popular remedy, too, but both venom and oil have now fallen out of medical favor. The chief modern use for the venom is to immunize horses so their serum can be used to cure rattlesnake bites...
...circulation mounted to 700,000, Gauvreau posted a bulletin-board communique: "The circulation ... is tearing the guts out of the presses. This has resulted from my policy of sensationalism. Any man who cannot be yellow has no place on the staff...
Klee's whimsy is in the realm of fantasy but never obscurity. Turn the painting in a vertical position and the "areas of green, yellow and blue" show a self-portrait...