Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strain. Tires were the toughest problem. They were inflated to a rock-hard 60 Ibs. (until this year competitors had settled for a relatively soft 40 Ibs.), and to make matters worse, the track's new blacktop surface seemed especially abrasive. Every time there was an accident, the yellow caution lights went on, warning drivers to hold their positions. During the unregulated moments when the track was clear, drivers roared to top speed. So the long grind degenerated into a series of lopes and sprints...
...still unnamed disease causes symptoms virtually indistinguishable from tuberculosis. However, the germs are definitely not tubercle bacilli (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)-most are yellow or orange, whereas tubercle bacilli are colorless. And the unidentified germs show a different growth pattern...
Parsons' heavy prose has exaggerated the complexities and difficulties of his generalizations. "If I were he," one professor claims, "I'd spend a whole year revising each book. He just doesn't stop to sweat out expressions." As a result, Toward a General Theory of Action was nicknamed. "The Yellow Peril," and the publishers called in a graduate student to clarify the writing. This graduate student later became one of Parsons' closest collaborators, but not before "Parsonian Prose" had become a permanent part of the faculty vocabulary...
That Sunday morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown...
...arrives in his grey-carpeted office on the twelfth floor of the marble-pillared American Express Building at 65 Broadway, he plunges straight into dictation. By the time the vice presidents arrive-no later than 9 a.m. if they want to avoid Reed's wrath -a drift of yellow memos has usually settled over their desks. Even on trips by car or train, Reed pores through his briefcase, dictating to a secretary...