Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...south Georgia the piney woods were green, yellow forsythia buds were breaking open, and the camellias-pink, red and white-were in full glory. The buoyancy of spring was on the land, and Dwight Eisenhower, fresh in from Washington, was a man eminently in tune with his environment. From the moment he stepped out of the Columbine at Moultrie at midweek, the President's progress was reminiscent of the heady days of the 1952 campaign...
...most part, the debate was solemn and deeply thoughtful. The most eloquent of the abolitionists was yellow-haired Bevanite Sydney Silverman, whose sarcastic, extreme left-wing speeches usually irritate the House; in this debate he heard a rare cheer as he urged "free men, free women, free Members of Parliament in a free society to wipe this dark stain from our statute books...
When Eva looks at an airplane in total darkness, the hot engine parts may show up yellow while the cold wings look blue. A heated house is visible against its cooler background, and factory chimneys stand out conspicuously with trails of hot gas. The heat-pictures on the film are bright enough to be photographed in black and white or color with an ordinary camera. A picture can be erased by heating the film momentarily and evaporating all the oil. In about two seconds the oil film forms again, ready for another picture...
Diabolique are you if you guess who's in the bathtub. Don't tell your relatives, or the man in the yellow shirt will get you. Rocks around the clock from 10 'til 10 every two hours. At the Beacon Hill...
Even the hocus-pocus of Madison Avenue wags cannot conceal the charm of this seething French thriller. Forget the yellow shirt and the unsigned promise. In the vein of a sardonic O. Henry, Diabolique sometimes is ghoulish and gross, and is never very subtle. The ending, quite as startling as the man in the yellow shirt had you believe, induces a feeling of mental ineptitude. You wonder whether you weren't paying attention at the critical moment; perhaps it's because the director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is simply a very clever...