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Word: yellow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blazing garishly in a speckled yellow cover, the fifth issue of i.e. is large not only in bulk (152 pp.) but in the range of its contents. Moreover, it combines quality and provocativeness more successfully than any of the previous numbers, and states more clearly its present situation in its quest for a point of view...

Author: By John B. Loengard and John A. Pope, S | Title: i.e. The Cambridge Review | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

When O'Casey's mind leaves the theater, he brightens perceptibly. He loves national flags-except for that of Ireland which "should replace the sickly-looking tricolor of green, white and yellow" with "the old flag, a lovely one, of the green field with the harp in its center." In "The Power of Laughter: Weapon Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crackerbarrel O'Casey | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...University scientists have found and identified a tiny yellow ant as a key link in the evolution of the ant family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Scientists Find Key Link in Ant Evolution | 3/20/1956 | See Source »

...colony, only three hours by air from Miami, is the Temperate Zone dweller's vision of Eden: white sand beaches and an emerald surf, blue mountains and waterfalls in the distance, a green landscape of palms, banana and sugar cane, splashed with gaudy contrasts of scarlet poinciana blooms, yellow and coral bougainvillaea vines and fragrant orchards of mangoes, limes and tangerines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: Island in the Sun | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...whole rebellion, the Negro defendants-each freed on $300 bond after fingerprinting-proceeded from the jailhouse to church for the next move. About 3,000 Negroes gathered in Montgomery's red brick First Baptist (Negro) Church to protest the arrests, to kneel beneath stained glass windows and peeling yellow walls and sing "Hallelujah." Said the Rev. Martin Luther King, 27: "This is not a tension between the Negro and whites. This is only a conflict between justice and injustice. We are not just trying to improve Negro Montgomery. We are trying to improve the whole of Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: City on Trial | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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