Word: hue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiders, whose ancestors antedated the dinosaurs, have lived on the earth for millions of years. During that time they have picked up a few tricks besides the fly-catching web. There are spiders that look like ants and live with ants; others change color, like chameleons, according to the hue of the flowers on which they wait for prey...
...York investment firm of Dillon, Read, put up the money for a new field house, although the Corporation was unhappy about building in financially uncertain times. On January 15, 1930, the Soldiers Field House conveniently burned down, "coloring the murky, rainleaden sky with a deep crimson hue," according to a CRIMSON extra, and the new Georgian building which replaced it opened for the Dartmouth game in October...
...treasonable, many are confused by it; none consider it a coincidence without meaning. If your writer does not care to draw conclusions or wait for facts, you might at least spare the College any future Chesire cat editorials, which have neither logic nor information, but only a ruddy, ruddy hue. John M. Sink...
...public, the Democrats tried to look only outraged. In private, they also looked worried, and many a politico said gloomily that even if McCarthy found no culprit, he had still hurt the Democratic Party with all his hue & cry. At Key West, President Truman called in newsmen to try to repair the damage. After passing out hamburgers and lemonade, he turned the full weight of his office against the Senator from Wisconsin. McCarthy's charges, said the President, talking a little extremely himself, had become the greatest asset the Kremlin now had in the cold...
...this hue & cry no Democrat rose to battle in Dean Acheson's defense-even though some of them might privately agree with the position of New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock, who this week described Acheson as "in many ways the best-equipped man for his job in years and intellectually the superior of-many [of his] predecessors...