Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel and a Socialist." The milk she sold was bluish and watery; her eggs "bore unmistakable evidence of having been near hens...
...glass tankful of bluish chemicals, half darkened and half sunlit, is now busy generating electric current. What is more, it can keep on keeping on-at least in theory-for as many ages as the sun shines and the earth survives...
...bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...
...Monge first encountered mountain sickness in 1924 when an engineer stumbled into his office on swollen legs, gasping for breath. His face was bluish red, as though he had been choked, his eyelids were swollen, all the superficial blood vessels in his body appeared distended. He was weak, drowsy, suffered from spells of blindness and deafness. When he was taken down to sea level he was "completely cured." Since then, he gradually worked his way up to 10,000 feet. Other victims, who look healthy, may go temporarily crazy...
Drinking water was so nauseous the mayor's office had to be provided with bottled water; thousands of citizens went daily to Fairmount Park springs to collect their drinking supply. Last week a bluish-black liquid stinking of chlorine, puckery with alum, gushed from many a tap. "There must have been a severe storm in the coal regions," the water bureau explained...