Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only by his mild and self-effacing performance, but by his personal appearance. His quiet, expensive clothes, his full-toothed smile, his bland face, his high-pitched, almost boyish voice, gave him the aura of a super-Rotarian booster right out of Main Street. But his eyes-cold, blue and direct-explained him more fully...
...howled down out of the Northwest, spun off the flanks of the Colorado Rockies, and whirled free and angry across the Great Plains. To western Kansans, this was it-a sure-enough "blue norther,"* the season's first. Soon screaming winds, as high as 80 miles an hour, lashed the wheatfields with blinding snow and churned up great white drifts. Transcontinental trains ground to a halt; ice-sheathed communication lines sagged and snapped. Thousands of grubbing cattle, trapped in the snow, froze to death on the hoof...
...phrase coined by oldtime cowboys to describe a storm that turned them blue with cold...
Bill Cunningham, of the Boston Herald succeeded in predicting the 20 to 7 score. Bob Cooke, of the New York Herald-Tribune, was the only other scribe to pick the two touchdown margin by which the Crimson downed the Blue...
...flew and pecked and scratched. He showed the turkey his rear and made it very plan he wanted to be left alone. After the game, when the noise really started, Dan made a boe-line for New Haven where a man can be among friends when he's feeling blue...