Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office he dictated the statement to Jean. Then Mary Driscoll, McCarthy's secretary, delivered it to Mundt, whispering in his ear that her boss would like him to read it into the record and the TV cameras. After glancing over the two sheets of yellow paper, Mundt refused, muttering, "It's unfortunate, and it is not warranted." Secretary Driscoll retreated with the yellow sheets...
...Apology. Clutching the yellow paper in his good left hand, McCarthy read what "may be my temporary swan song as chairman." It sounded more like the honk of a winged goose. Said Joe: "Our committee has been held up now for approximately ten months. The President of the U.S. has taken it upon himself to congratulate Senators Flanders*and W'atkins, who have been instrumental in holding up our work ... I should apologize to the American people for what was an unintentional deception upon them. During the Eisenhower campaign I spoke from coast to coast, promising the American people...
Next signal, when the incoming aircraft prove "manifestly hostile in intent": Yellow Alert, to set off air-raid sirens, ground all civilian planes. Final signal: Red Alert, meaning World War III. By then, bombs, and perhaps the bombers, would be plunging earthward...
...Hemingway who first stepped into Gertrude Stein's salon in postwar Paris was 22, "rather foreign looking, with passionately interested, rather than interesting eyes." But the Hemingway she remembered later, after they had parted company, was "yellow . . . just like the flatboat men on the Mississippi River as described by Mark Twain...
Anti-Japanese feeling dies hard in Australia. Last week, a decade after Tojo's men were driven out of islands adjacent to the southern continent, Australians were excited anew about the "Yellow Peril." Into Rabaul Harbor came a Japanese pearling ship, its crew battened below decks, its captain a captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they...