Word: redder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...male previewers, in their black and white identical uniforms, could barely be distinguished by the color of their eyes (redder going out than coming in) and whether or not they wore beards. One notable exception: Painter Larry Rivers, no opster with a brush, who blurred the vision by wearing two neckties-one red, one blue-and-white-striped-on a button-down shirt covered with dime-size green polka dots...
...Which last week was redder than usual after its Moscow correspondent reported a rumor that Khrushchev had been the target of an assassination attempt. After a Kremlin spokesman denounced the story as a "provocative lie," L'Unità tried to pin the rumor on Western newsmen. Khrushchev, meanwhile, was relaxing at his Black Sea villa near Sochi and joked with a visiting Brazilian diplomat about the reported attempt on his life...
...there is a fall from what sportsmen call "form," mystics call "grace" and gamblers call "luck." What actually happens is that intensity of sensation lacks duration. The Hemingway hero is a collector of great moments, but he refuses to acknowledge pauses or intermissions. He calls for madder music and redder wine, and if that fails, he pronounces that phase of his life dead. The activism of Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning a person, a party or a cause, were attempts to keep the intensity of sensation at a constant...