Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night was a pilot's dream, clear and bright with waxing moon glowing yellow in the sky. In the tower at New York's Idlewild Airport, controlmen expertly ticked off the routine comings and goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable...
...prodigal had been driven from the house, years before, for the worst of South African crimes-he had fathered a child by black Joseph's sister. The girl with her little Bastaard, "yellow and wrinkled like a stone," had been sent packing. Big Joseph, on a pilgrimage as painful as that of the black pastor in Alan Paton's Cry, The Beloved Country, had made his pitiful trek to discover what happened to his sister and her child. After failing in his search, he had returned to make a moral judgment of the whites who had wronged...
...article on Admiral Arleigh Burke was excellent; there has been a little contention here concerning the cover. We are wondering if the line around the Admiral's picture has 31 knots in it or not; there are 27 knots visible, but others may be obscured by the yellow band in the upper right-hand corner...
...that yellow bulkhead...
...winner, blew a tire after 325 miles, bounced off a wall and rolled to the pits on his rim; he never made up his lost time. Another car, its brakes locked, spun into the pits, caromed off a competitor and hit a mechanic. Tires kept popping, and the yellow lights flared; three drivers, two pit crew members and two spectators were injured...