Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barnstorming 1920s. Though he founded his own aircraft firm and briefly ran Lockheed Aircraft Corp., his heart belonged to the drawing board; there he conceived such notable planes as the PT-17, the agile, open-cockpit trainer, known to thousands of World War II pilots as "the Yellow Peril," and continued to work on plans for modern swing-wing jets and space re-entry vehicles until his retirement...
...called upon to decide nothing less than the fate of Western civilization. After a good deal of messy preliminaries, China and Russia go to war against each other. Atomic weapons devastate both countries, but the massive Chinese army advances despite horrendous losses. Drury describes the Chinese variously as "yellow hordes," "pagan hordes" and "mongrel hordes." Besides Knox, other holdover Drury characters taking a last bow include Secretary of State Robert Lessingwell, Commie-Symp Fred Van Ackerman, Columnist Walter Dobius and TV Commentator Frankly Unctuous...
Crimson executive editor Phil Weiss, who braved the elements by playing in a tee-shirt and cute yellow gym shorts, was the defensive standout of the afternoon...
...cold-war farce, Horst Bucholz was held captive by ruthless commissars intent on prying secret information out of him. He resisted, at least initially. Then the villains immured him in a room with a phonograph that kept playing over and over It Was an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. His will frayed, his sanity shot, Bucholz broke...
...demanded a kill. "Here was I," recalled the ex-official, "the white man with his gun, standing in front of the unarmed native crowd-seemingly the leading actor of the piece; but in reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." After the ritual sacrifice, the writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done...