Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from...
Khaki Shirts & Candor. They landed at Washington's National Airport wearing black suits, khaki Army shirts, tan Army shoes, bluish felt hats and the look of men who will not be taken in by city slickers. They smiled and nodded happily when they were told to form their own opinions and to have no fear of frankness, but it soon developed that the advice was unnecessary. They were men of imposing candor...
...told by doctors at Los Angeles' Children's Hospital, there was only a 100-to-1 chance that he would live. The three-hour operation was successful. When he left the operating room, Don's bluish complexion was pink. Doctors believe that Fegenbush, never able to take more than ten steps at a time, will be able to leave his wheelchair...
...foehn* is a warm, dry wind that tumbles, sometimes with landslide suddenness, down the northern slopes of the Bavarian Alps. In winter and early spring, as it sweeps across Bavaria, it melts the snow and brings to the landscape a strange, bluish haze. German mountain-folk hold to an ancient belief that the foehn also brings sickness and melancholia in its blast...
Cato & Mr. Shylock. It was a typical day at the Assembly. Beyond the dull-orange doors, guarded by U.N.'s own police in bluish-grey uniforms, sat the spectators (mostly matrons and students) in a subdued glow of public spirit. From the rostrum at the far end of the huge hall, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky faced them. A proposal had been made by Argentina to submit the veto question to the "Little Assembly" for examination. Vishinsky fulminated against it, exploded with similes: ". . . They are repeating day after day 'the veto must be destroyed'; like Cato...