Word: yellowish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the golden-green wheatfields of Honan Province, the twelfth longest river in the world ran sluggishly thick with yellowish silt from the loess lands of China's northwest. On its soggy banks last week coolies toiled with hand and basket, shovel and wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into...
Blister rust symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
...course he was referring to termites, which are neither white nor are they ants. Generally yellowish or brownish in color, they belong to the insect order Isoptera which is only remotely related to the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps...
...stared and stared and couldn't get that thought out of his mind, repeating it over and over: "Those guys just starved to death. They just starved." It was easy to see that they were starved. There was just nothing on them, nothing but yellowish or brownish skin stretched, tightly over bones and cavities and all their members hung down loosely, as they lie on men who throw themselves down exhausted to the ground. Some men who were not dead sat idly on a bench nearby. A Frenchman who had drifted up just smiled and smiled in that curious...
P.S.P. & T., which expects soon to reach an annual production of 1,750,000 gallons, has already started diverting its sudsy, yellowish sulphite waste liquors through a six-story, million-dollar moonshiner's dream of a still (built and owned by the Defense Plant Corp.). Its obvious hurry to get into production has two prime causes, beyond Government needs: 1) so long as the war lasts, the Government will buy all of Puget Sound's output, but thereafter the mill will have to compete in a civilian market against the vast flow of more cheaply produced grain...