Word: hue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Krug made the deal with the oil industry. In addition to reducing East Coast gasoline refining in favor of the more critically needed' fuel oils, the deal permits oil companies to pool and swap supplies, thus even up the flow of oil. (Because of the hue & cry over oil exports -actually a mere dribble-the Government also ordered an 18½% cut in them...
...orange hue the grove assumes, The Indian-summer days appear; When that deceitful summer comes Be sure to hail the winter near: If autumn wears a mourning coat Be sure, to keep the mind afloat...
...almost perfect neo-paleolithic specimen. When the Communist Party hacked its bloody way to power in 1917, Gromyko was eight years old. He, like millions with him and after him, never had a toy, a dream, a book or an ideal that was not somehow tinged by the penetrating hue of Communist dogma. That such men exist, that they occupy positions of power is one of the most important facts in today's world. Gromyko does not belong in the category of the commissars of the 1920s, who were far more imaginative and volatile. He is closer to the yogi...
...tired businessman from Kankakee, the famed beauties at the Folies Bergère "will be acting with even more abandon now that warm weather is here. Last winter their nude bodies were often blue with cold, and electricians had to work overtime devising lights that would give the proper hue to the frigid form divine...
Shubert got permission to lift music from any Puccini opera so long as he mixed nobody else's music in with it. The terms raised such a hue & cry that Attorney General Tom Clark rushed into print with an explanation. The U.S. had reserved a veto: if Shubert's score was not up to Puccini's "high artistic standards," the deal...