Word: greenish
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...front of the Generalissimo, a dumpy little chief in a tasseled forage cap. Down the line he went, kissing each man and clasping him hard. Then out stepped the Alcázar's heroic Commandant, bearded, emaciated Colonel José Moscardó. The circles under his eyes were greenish black and he trembled as he walked. "Colonel José Moscardó," said the White Generalissimo, "I confer upon you the Cross of San Fernando, and I confer this same cross collectively upon the whole company of Spain's greatest heroes." He then raised Colonel Moscard...
...been thoroughly scraped, oiled and polished. Sculptor Donato again sprinted for the Mayor's office, there met with fur ther bad news. A third WPA crew, he was told, had got at a bronze Washington in front of Independence Hall, holystoned away every trace of its treasured greenish mold. The WPA ducked further trouble with aroused Sculptor Donato by announcing that it had no more time to devote to scrubbing statues...
...Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson...
...heavy, slit-eyed man with an unshaven, greenish face got out of a plane one afternoon last week at the San Antonio, Tex. airport. Behind him trailed five swarthy followers only slightly less formidable-looking. The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face...
Victims of chlorosis were usually maidens in their middle teens. Physically they always seemed well-nourished. Their skin, however, had a greenish-yellow tinge, especially in brunettes. There was a bluish cast to the whites of their eyes. Such chlorotic girls constantly complained of being tired. They had capricious appetites, often preferred sour things like pickles...