Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet note, with a spurious mildness and plausibility, set out to court every color of German or European political opinion. ''Millions of Englishmen cannot forget the tragic lot of Coventry," or the Czechs, Lidice. Could the West be sure a rearmed West Germany "will not attack its present partners again?" Khrushchev's underlying theme was that he rejects German reunification. The Communists are there to stay in East Germany (see below), and the only kind of reunification that can be hoped for is a confederation...
...Mateos likes to rise at 6 and start the day with a cup of ink-black coffee and the newspapers, then shave with a Remington shaver. He dresses in double-breasted suits of conservative cut and dark color, wears monogrammed ties...
...They cover the dogfights as well as the international crises, send reporters to club meetings as well as the Kremlin. The Des Moines papers have 214 stringers; the Minneapolis Star once used three editors, five photographers and twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash. Both cities use four-color news pictures (the Star regularly has one on its front page). Both produce Sunday papers that are regional institutions, provide readers with everything from soil-conservation guidance to fine sequence pictures of Big Ten football plays. Crack circulation departments turn loose an army of 19,000 eager carrier boys...
...parfit practisour"). John went so far as to publish a list of ailments that, financially, were beneath his notice. His gaudiest feat: curing Edward I's son of smallpox by swaddling the boy in scarlet robes, confining him to a room hung with scarlet drapes, claiming that the color's influence turned the trick. The 17th century court physician had less brass. When France's young Louis XIV caught syphilis, the doctors were too spineless to tell him (or anyone else). They also disguised the Sun King's measles by reporting that the royal body...
...high notes and then to wander around dazedly for several bars while she tried to come down again. Bjoerling's lyric tenor lacked the heroic style that the role of Radames demands, and Gobbi was far from his compelling best. Only Mezzo Simionato sang with the range, color and fire that her fans have come to expect of her. The voices of the supporting singers were lost in the huge house. "No wonder he can't sing," said one observer watching the messenger to the Pharaoh noiselessly moving his mouth. "The poor guy has just...