Word: magentas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then too there is the element of pure meanness in such laughter, both the meanness of enjoyment in watching an embarrassed misspeaker's eyes roll upward as if in prayer -his hue turn magenta, his hands like homing larks fluttering to his mouth-and the mean joy of discovering his hidden base motives and critical intent. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter took a lot of heat for referring to Hubert Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower because it was instantly recognized that Carter thought Humphrey a windbag. David Hartman of Good Morning America left little doubt about...
...writing goes, it varies, as one would expect. In its first half-century or so, The Crimson--founded in 1873 as The Magenta--focused primarily on football games, with class schedules, ads and listings rounding out its scrawny pages. After a stint as The Harvard Summer News during World War II, the paper came of age, during the '50's with reasonably comprehensive coverage of the McCarthyiteonslaught on academic freedom. But the late '60's were when the growing Crimson began to bristle with the emotion and turmoil of the anti-Vietnam War movement (although its editorial position...
...that he thinks of it as red. To Cleary, every shade from maroon to magenta has one name, and that's crimson...