Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress denied a federal charter, believing that no good could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever in Rumania, dengue fever in Guam, malaria in Nicaragua. In Manhattan a Rockefeller scientist named Dr. Wilbur Sawyer developed the world's first effective anti-yellow-fever vaccine...
...Yellow Planet. As Mars drew close last week, even laymen noticed that it could hardly be called red. This time it looked definitely yellow. One reason for this, reported astronomers from Japan to Texas, was a gigantic, yellow dust cloud, presumably raised by unusual turbulence in the Martian atmosphere. It was first seen by Japanese astronomers in the middle of August. Later it spread until it obscured much of the planet's surface, making all observation difficult...
...rules was the case of a woman patient whose uninfected husband visited her regularly. She asked Gordon if she could dance with him. Gordon said no, because it was too difficult to keep track of patients and nonpatients ("We can't put blue jackets on some and yellow jackets on the others"). Complained the patient: "I can stay in bed with my husband all day-but they won't let me dance with...
...back to Bern. Klee was dying of a rare disease which produced progressive drying of his body tis sues, and he knew it. Painted on newspaper with thick paint and broad strokes, High Water-Wood is one of the most private of Klee's works. Areas of green, yellow and blue are laid out with perfect harmony...
Chromatic Collection. Nina poked around in the bright jumble on the C. & A. counters and latched on to five natty little numbers-a chromatic collection of feathered "half hats" in mauve, yellow, black and white, and a pert red wool beanie. The whole lot came to ?1 12s. 11 d. ($4.61). The next thing anyone knew, the hats were in her shopping bag and Nina was in the hands of some hard-eyed store detectives who decided that she had failed to go through the capitalistic formality of paying. Naturally, Nina couldn't understand a word...