Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beach. Thundering winds (an anemometer at the Jupiter Inlet Light registered 162 before it was blown away) shattered plate glass, ripped roofs off buildings, filled city streets with flying debris. The blast battered coconuts from palm trees and bowled them about beaches and pavements. Power lines snapped with blinding blue flashes. A concrete and metal hangar at West Palm Beach was mashed and 40 airplanes wrecked...
Perched on orange-colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...
Paint One Blue. The next step is to estimate the distance by timing the round trip of an individual bee (a worker bee flies about 15 m.p.h,). To do this, one particular bee has to be marked. Hunter Edgell does it by selecting a bee which has worked its way into a cell of the comb and is relatively immune to outside distractions. Then he daubs its rear with blue paint (made from carpenter's chalk and water). On the next trip, the blue-bottomed bee stands out from its fellows...
...Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro, chord, and boogie-beat, Major, minor, jig, and waltz, Scherzo, downbeat, jazz, and smaltz, Jukebox, drumstick, and Puccini, Bassoons, batons...
...long will the boom last? Said the trade publication, the Boys' Outfitter: "Parents, sooner or later, are going to resist the Western trend...Johnny and Billy forever in...blue jeans, wearing sombreros in the home, and raising the roof with yipee and hi-ho while popping up and down behind chairs and sofas shooting off cap guns. [But at present] no end...is in sight...