Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line politicos have raised a hue & cry that Papagos plans a dictatorship. Chief among his opponents: former Premier Nicholas Plastiras, Centrist, himself a onetime general, though considerably less successful than Papagos, and Sophocles Venizelos, a bridge-playing, bumbling, well-intentioned Liberal. The U.S. has taken no stand in this election, but with Greece about to become a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty alliance, there is no doubt that U.S. military men would like to see an efficient administrator and housecleaner like Papagos...
...beauty, you are soon going to get your chance. The Supreme Court decided the other day to let C.B.S. put a little color wheel in front of your TV set that will cause all which now seems mere black-and-white to take on a multi-colored hue...
...unassuming candidate for China's 1946 hit parade was a bouncy little item called Mei Kuei, meaning "a rose." It was recorded in a thin, reedy soprano by a Chinese cabaret songstress named Hue Lee, enjoyed a modest popularity. By last week Mei Kuei's old Chinese friends would have scarcely recognized it. The Chinese lyrics had been uprooted; the new ones told the touching story of a Tommy's farewell to his Malayan sweetheart. As Rose, Rose, I Love You, the song stood No. 2 on Britain's hit parade...
Meanwhile, Rose's British publishers have set aside part of their pyramiding royalties for Miss Hue Lee and the song's unknown writers, now presumably somewhere in Red China...
Amygdaline means almondlike, "for almond appears to be derived from the Greek amygdal. . . The word would fitly decorate one of those ladies who must have their hair in the hue of a blanched almond. Amygdaline blondes are many, and the epithet would give them more dignity than they usually possess...