Word: purplish
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...painters use so bright a palette or so bold a brush and still achieve so sorrowful a mood. Purplish blues lie alongside acid greens; reds and yellows vie for attention yet do not seem to clash. Nor do the ragged rhythms of the paintings ever get out of control. Tension mounts in Jacob Lawrence's paintings, but the threatened disorder never takes place...
...center of the halo, which appeared to be about ten times the size of the moon. Then the star became elongated, in a dumbbell shape, as if a separation were taking place. Then the missile became a spot of light as it merged with the horizon in the purplish light of the early dawn...
...dark, Simons' balloon still shone with reflected sunlight. Through his porthole windows, he stared at the most impressive sight of his life: a stratosphere sunset. Checking the changing shades against a spectrum chart, he radioed a fervid description back to earth, once excitedly described a shade as "purplish blue blue." Said he: "There's no color on. this chart to match it. No sunset on earth was ever so beautiful...
...uncommon nut are both causes of severe skin inflammation, says the A.M.A. Journal. An Oakland (Calif.) man, 36, went to a party where the only drink served was gin and tonic, had five or six of them. Within two days his entire body was covered with a red or purplish rash, his face was unrecognizable, and his palms and soles were a mass of blisters. It took six days of treatment with cortisone, wet dressings and lotions before he could leave the hospital. Cause of his trouble: a rare, severe sensitivity to quinine. A Philadelphia woman...
...owing and scraping, the man in the purplish blue suit and the yellow shoes flashes a toothy smile gleaming with gold inlays. He hisses a greeting with all the ineffable politeness of an old-school Japanese. Who is he? Mr. Moto, of course, back in print after a 15-year absence owing to a slight unpleasantness between the U.S. and Japan. Author Marquand created his serial agent in the 19305 after a trip to the Orient, and it is strange to meet Moto again, now that Marquand is so much better known for his travels through New England and Suburbia...