Word: bluish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokunaga, setting out on a shopping trip to Tokyo, watched idly as a crowded train pulled into a Yokohama station. Two workmen were fixing a sagging overhead electric power line. As the train passed underneath, the power line tangled with the train's trolley. There was a blinding, bluish-white flash as 1,500 volts crackled into the train. Flames licked swiftly over the first two of the five wooden coaches. Motorman Akira Nakamura braked sharply, shut off the power and jumped from the cab, tried frantically to force the doors of the coaches with his hands. Because...
...minute oration about the Yale swimmers. Then for four minutes he talked about the ladies in the audience. After 17 minutes, on the verge of losing both his voice and his mind, he was stating for the fourth time that the water in the pool was indeed a bluish green when the relays finally started...
...interest of the faculty, which is to dine in this room. So the theme became a sprouting, glaucous verdure, an image of the idea of growing. Green, as a soothing, quieting, and appetizing color. To contain enough variations towards more exciting yellow shades as well as towards cooler bluish tints. But green, as rich and juicy as possible without becoming aggressive...