Word: yellows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Champagne & Vishinsky. Afterwards, however, when he was taken into the yellow-walled U.N. dining room for a reception, he did his best to make up for his shadow's overzealousness. The Russian delegation had pointedly refrained from applause, and Vishinsky, when the President was introduced to the delegates, hesitated until the last second before shaking hands. But after a U.N. birthday cake (a rum and butter cake which bore five candles) was cut, and champagne poured, Truman walked across to the Soviet Foreign Minister, shook hands with him again and spent seven minutes in animated and obviously pleasant conversation...
...Atlanta, Kentucky's Wildcats over Georgia Tech's Yellow Jackets, 28-14, extending Kentucky's 1950 winning streak to seven straight...
Soon after V-J day, proud U.S. cavalrymen raised a yellow and black billboard on the western outskirts of Tokyo. It read: "You are now entering Tokyo by courtesy of the 1st Cavalry Division-First in Manila; First in Tokyo-The First Team." As last week began, the dismounted troopers of the 1st Cavalry had every intention of adding "First in Pyongyang" to their battle honors...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, a man who got to fame in the sere and yellow leaf, was naturally jubilant about winning the World Series, but, at 59, he was a little undecided about his future. After the last game in his team's clean sweep, Casey surprised sportwriters by saying, "I don't know whether I'm coming back next year ... it will depend upon my health." Last week Stengel got just what the doctor ordered: a two-year contract making him the highest-paid manager in baseball history. True to a modern baseball custom much favored...
...first step was to find a bean pot with great potential aura. After a search through local potteries, he found a dandy: a 200-qt., 100-lb., 50-year-old affair. Then one day last week he loaded his bean pot into a Yellow Cab, had himself driven to a deserted highway excavation, eased the pot down into the mud ("to dirty it up a bit"), and hauled it back to his office. Next day, Boston papers received a special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert...