Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of the highway came a spatter of small-arms fire. With a combat-developed reflex motion, the marines sprang from their vehicles, took cover in a ditch and fired back. Mortar shells and machine-gun bullets flushed the ambushers-Chinese riflemen, some clad in loincloths, some in the bluish uniforms of Chinese Communists...
Perhaps Clark's greatest asset is his personal charm, his biggest failing an insatiable appetite for publicity. (Once, during a concert in Salzburg, he suddenly appeared in his box bathed in bluish light while the orchestra played ruffles & flourishes.) But he has managed to turn even this fault to good use. Whenever the Russians are too adamant he calls in the boys of the press. He has found that Moscow is sensitive to U.S. and world public opinion; on occupation matters-such as Russia's recent-land-grab attempt in Burgenland-the Reds sometimes bow to hostile press...
...mass. Under some conditions, the chain reaction starts slowly. But sometimes it leaps into violence in a millionth of a second. There is no explosion, no vibration, no sound. No human sense can detect the outburst of deadly radiation. The only warning, which comes too late, is a faint bluish glow. Some experts think it is caused by ionization of the air; others believe it to be an optical illusion telegraphed to the brain by stimulated nerves behind the eyes...
Perhaps Dr. Slotin was watching the warning instruments more carefully than his fellows; perhaps he saw the bluish glow. At any rate, he realized that the chain reaction had spurted to high intensity. The room was being swept with deadly radiation. He leaped forward, put his body between his colleagues and the radiating mass, scattered its materials. The chain reaction halted immediately...
...from the steppes of central Asia and win the key region for dominating northern China. Meanwhile the Japanese installed Prince Teh in an old, tile-roofed, Mongol palace at Inner Mongolia's metropolis, Koko Hoto (pop. 120,000)-the "Blue City," so called because from a distance a bluish haze veils...