Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stiff salute, Zhukov watched the young cadets of Russia's top military academies goose-step their way through Moscow's Red Square in unwavering, platoon-wide lines. The cadets wore smart new uniforms; steel-blue with sleeves laced with gold-braided laurel leaves; their officers wore striped yellow-and-white moiré belts from which hung short gilt swords...
...official occasions he came out in full marshal's regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Higino Craveiro Lopes and Strongman Oliveira Salazar, Café Filho began his state visit by riding through downtown Lisbon in an open car, along flag-decorated streets jammed with smiling, cheering people. Torrents of confetti in the Brazilian national colors cascaded downward, green from one side of the street, yellow from the other. The pace of the welcome never let up. Before boarding a plane for home last week, Café Filho whirled through a hectic round of receptions, state dinners and sightseeing...
Just outside the gateway to Milan's 33rd annual fair last week, an enormous yellow sign bore the proud legend: "1945-1955-ten years of work for a free and respected fatherland.' Inside, at the biggest industrial fair in Italian history, were the results of Italy's postwar labors, helped by some $3 billion in U.S. funds. Stretching over 100 acres were futuristic exhibit halls and brightly painted booths of 9,400 Italian firms-and 4,000 foreign companies that wanted to sell in Italy's expanding markets. In the two weeks of the fair, some...
...citizens lined the long road from Hopkinton, Mass, to Boston (26 miles 385 yds.) to cheer as mixed a crew of visitors as ever raced through New England. As 160 runners jostled into the start of the 59th Boston Athletic Association Marathon,† swarthy Latin complexions shaded off into yellow Oriental tints and the pink-white of Scandinavian skins. Bostonians could cheer for Canada, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Japan, Finland, Sweden...