Word: blushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mercury stood at 30° below zero, and the rosy Arctic twilight suffused the snow with an eerie blush when a DC-3, equipped with ski pontoons, bounced to a landing on the ice of Foxe Basin north of Hudson Bay. The first passenger off the plane, Judge William Morrow, hurried to the nearby community hall, which was redolent of blubber, untanned sealskin and oil. Without bothering to shed his mukluks (heavy sealskin boots), he pulled on the traditional black robe, white collar and tabs, and red sash of his office. Court was in session. For the tiny...
...rest of the world, Switzerland is a land of placid tranquillity and order nestling amid picture-postcard scenery. Yet of late it has been the scene of doings that would make the ministrants of Rosemary's Baby blush. For the past four weeks, the gruesome evidence has poured forth in a Zurich courtroom. On trial are six people, including Joseph Stocker, 61, a defrocked and excommunicated South German priest, and his fanatically religious mistress, Magdalena Kohler, 54. The charge...
...white-on-white paintings; Ad Reinhardt experimented with black on black. Latest and farthest-out researcher is Cali fornia's Robert Irwin, 39, who has developed pictures composed of light on light. Each painting consists of a white aluminum disk, sprayed at the edges with a subtle blush of blue, pink or grey. Mounted 15 or 20 inches from the wall, the disks are lit by four small spotlights, which cast phantasmal shadows on the wall behind...
...personalities had a Sophoclean cast. Lyndon Johnson, the world's most powerful political leader, abjured his power in the cause of world peace; Martin Luther King, the nation's most ardent exponent of nonviolent social reform, was violently removed in an act of outrage that at first blush seemed to threaten the onslaught of race war. Yet each in his manner of de parture achieved a stature that neither had ever previously attained. King became the canonized leader of his people's cause; Johnson, about to surrender his political life, gained an unprecedented opportunity to work...
...going to shake hands with you," said the Milton Mother in the purply-red suit. "You've turned our community upside down. I'm not going to shake hands with you." Edward J. McLaughlin, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was embarrassed. An Irish blush washed his face, lapping the edges of his gray temples...