Word: hue
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breasts and "actually coalesces in the terminal stages, to suggest an advanced state of measles." The mottling may spread over the abdomen, shoulders, and even the hollows inside the elbows. The labia minora become enlarged to about twice their normal size as tension increases, and turn a deeper, scarlet hue (purplish in a woman who has borne several children). The intensity of sexual response is directly proportional to this color change; in no observed case has a woman reached a deep-color phase without proceeding to a satisfactory orgasm. Engorgement of the labia minora and the outer third...
...political apprenticeship is over and she intends to run for mayor in 1967. She commented cryptically on election night that she will now have a chance to "go hunting. And I'm not saying where or with what." She admits that, around nomination time, "there was a great hue and cry throughout the city that I run for mayor...
...many Republican candidates campaigned on the right-to-work issue, arguing that the union shop was undemocratic. It was a classic blunder. Labor rose up that year, dashed Republican after Republican down to defeat for supporting 14(b), and changed the complexion of the U.S. Congress to a liberal hue that has not faded since...
...Jerry A. Rose, to whom Wolfkill told his story and who wrote this book between other assignments in Asia. Rose went to South Viet Nam in 1959 at the age of 25 to teach English at the University of Hue, stayed on to become a part-time correspondent for TIME and LIFE, a contributing editor for the Saturday Evening Post and finally, a special representative to the office of the Prime Minister. He and Wolfkill were close friends...
Last spring, when the U.S. tried one alternative-harmless tear gases-an A.P. reporter latched onto the story, and from the hue and cry that followed, one might have thought that the scene was Ypres and the weapon was that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...