Word: amber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical reagent added to each, for a double check. If the patient is pregnant, one reagent turns the solution dark brown; the other makes it reddish purple.* With both reagents, it becomes amber if she is not pregnant...
...Savannah, Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor got married to Arnold Krakower, the lawyer who helped her get the divorce last December from husband No. 2, Clarinetist Artie Shaw...
Married. George Sanders, 42, cinemactor (The Moon and Sixpence, Forever Amber); and Sari Gabor ("Zsazsa") Hilton, thirtyish, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, former wife of Hotel Magnate Conrad N. Hilton; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
Divorced. Artie Shaw, 38, bandleader: by his sixth wife, Kathleen Winsor, 30, bestselling novelist (Forever Amber); after two years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...