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...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...
...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...