Word: amber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington newshawks, bending over backward to find polite synonyms for "dictator," discovered that: 1) Dictator Batista has a cigaret holder like Franklin Roosevelt's amber one; 2) unlike the President he takes it out of his mouth when he talks; 3) he likes to sleep until 11 a. m., then brunches, sees visitors, plays squash or tennis; 4) he then works until 1 or 2 a. m., after that he sees movies; 5) he likes newsreels of Mussolini, of which he once saw seven in one night; 7) he says that sometimes he likes what Mussolini does, sometimes...
...motor. A "super-finish" on moving parts makes them fit to 2/1,000,000 in. Standard on the Custom job, extra on the others is the "Cruise and Climb" overdrive. Standard on all is a speedometer that sheds an approving green glow up to 30, an amber light through the 30s and 40s, a warning red over...
...secret half-belief in an old family legend that he is descended from the Green People, a species of sea gypsies who live in an underground world called St. Martin's Land. A few days later he meets a tousled, green-eyed boy who gives him an ancient amber cup, tells queer tales, disappears in the sea. As other meetings between them follow, Molly keeps sympathetic pace with Henry's lyric excitement, approves his redecorating his house as a green cave, controls her jealousy of his amphibian kinsman. By this time the reader has guessed that Author Dane...
...Federal airways (totaling 22,000 miles in length) are arbitrarily fixed at 50 miles wide. On air maps they are designated as green, amber and red airways with prescribed altitude and altitude crossing levels. Green has the right-of-way, amber next, red gives way to both amber and green...
When the aforesaid alumni gather in their clubs on cold afternoons with the wind and sleet driving outdoors and a tall amber glass at their side, their thoughts turn naturally to football. Obeying the dictum which is being laid down for all loyal alumni of the great American halls of learning, they don't say outright what's on their mind. None but the less uncultured of them, the ones who didn't get full benefit from the ivy, cloistered walls of Brown, say right out, "Let's get rid of this guy McLaughry...