Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, strange things were seen in the night sky over North Korea. The tail gunner and fire-control man of a B-29 over Wonsan saw a disk-shaped object that seemed to fly with a revolving motion. It was orange in color, and around its rim were small, bluish flames. For five minutes it flew along with the bomber at 200 m.p.h. Then it disappeared...
Last week the whale ship Anglo Norse put in at Elizabeth, N.J., with photographs of a real Moby Dick: an albino sperm whale harpooned off Peru several months ago by Gunner Henrik Nilsen. The whale was a 56-ton patriarch, all milky white with a bluish tinge around the tail. Gunner Nilsen struck first, lived to see his prey cut up and rendered...
...life had changed. Before dawn she lay awake waiting for the sun to rise. The ways of the sun's coming were various and rare. Sometimes the sun came swiftly, whitehot and bluish, into the white morning, sometimes slow and sullen, red with anger (thrusting up enormous in her window. (page...
...weekly Clarks, Neb. News, the story on Myrtle Mace's wedding told more about the groom than the bride. Said the News: "He wore a bluish business suit consisting of coat, vest and pants. The suit had been recently cleaned and pressed . . . Beneath was a freshly laundered white shirt. [His] hair had been recently trimmed by Fred Gilliard, Clarks's barber, and was brushed flat with a part on the left side." The reporter: Editor John Carter. The groom: Editor Carter...
Humbler and more complete than the city ruins is the destruction of the grass-roofed villages. They have vanished-more than 12,000 of them-into heaps of bluish-grey ashes. Bleak stone walls still stand in front of them, and mulberry and acacia bushes, covered with heavy dust...