Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult now for parents to hand on to children clear-cut standards of what is right and what is wrong in the relations of the sexes . . . The air is blue with insistent voices . . . analyzing behavior as 'normal' which in the past we were accustomed to associate with the gutter...
...hill-climbing car with water in the fuel lines, the New York stock market had sputtered upward in short uncertain bursts. One day last week the lines cleared and it began a steady climb. In the busiest session since mid-July, 1,800,000 shares were traded, with such blue chips as U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Standard Oil (N.J.) leading the parade. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.32 points, biggest gain since the bullish days of last July. At week's end, the Dow-Jones average was 190.19, up 9.78 points in twelve days...
Last year, having lost to M.I.T., Rhode Island, Boston University, and Dartmouth, the harriers found themselves in the same spot when the Eli-Tiger contest rolled around. In the ensuing debacle, they made it a perfect season by bowing dismally to both the Blue and the Orange and Black...
...women, pale blue is good: it comes out on the screen a charming off-white. Various shades of blue offer a fine range of greys. Bright purple turns into a steady, solid black...
Falk and Rome are desperate. They want it back. It's a full-length female leg, delicately covered with nylon and embellished with a blue lace-and-ribbon garter at the upper extremity...