Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Half Heaven, an old, toothless woman leaned on a stick and whimpered softly. Her husband explained: she had lived on Upper Tachen all her life, and could not understand what was going on. "She's deaf; she cries all the time." he said, and grinned, showing a single yellow tooth in his lower jaw. She was not the only one who found the evacuation of the Tachens hard to understand. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, putting the best face he could on it, proclaimed that the Tachens' troops were being redeployed "to meet the new challenge of international Communist aggression...
Some refugees grabbed axes and knives and tried to attack the few Viet Minh observers on duty with the commission. Women hurled rotten eggs. One Vietnamese kid seized a Viet Minh officer's hat and ripped off the yellow-starred badge. The embarrassed Communists soon learned why nobody among the 15,000 refugees asked to be returned: the Communists had once captured one of their priests and in a public execution had driven seven long nails into his head...
...heels of this Communist setback last week came another face-loser for the Reds. Two of eight MIG planes that at tacked a U.S. patrol plane and its escort over the Yellow Sea were splashed by U.S. Sabres, and the rest were routed...
Last week, in the midst of all the diplomatic blowup over Formosa, and at a time of international handwringing, a U.S. RB-45 reconnaissance jet bomber flew peacefully above the Yellow Sea, between the coasts of Korea and Red China, with twelve F-86 Sabre jets above it as top cover. Suddenly from nowhere flared out eight Communist MIGs-nationality uncertain, but intentions lethal. Four MIGs went for the RB-45, four for the Sabre jets. The Far East Air Forces' communique was laconic: "Pilots of the 4th Wing returned the attack and shot down two of the MIGs...
This affray above the Yellow Sea differed from its predecessors in that it was the biggest and best organized Communist air ambush since Korea; also in that the Communists did not even bother to protest. Six hundred miles southward, in the storm center around the Tachen Islands, the Seventh Fleet took wary note. "I want tight formations, no straggling," one Navy flight leader told his pilots. "Test your guns as soon as you get into a clear area. Make certain they are ready. Remember this-we are not out looking for a fight. But if trouble is brought...