Word: redder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yellow." But no; despite the additional temptations of purple, brown, pink and orange, the boy hews to one hue: "A cherry, berry, very red." And who can blame him? Keiko Narahashi shows a rainbow of appealing items, but the best is obviously Santa Claus on a fire engine. What redder, better way to say Merry Christmas...
...shaped mass. Next, the scientists determined the distance of the galaxy by taking an optical spectrum that revealed what one team member, Kenneth Chambers of Johns Hopkins University, calls cosmic fingerprints -- emission lines with sharp features characteristic of hydrogen and carbon. In distant galaxies, these lines occur at much redder wavelengths than those emitted by the same elements on earth; this so-called red shift, believed to be caused by the expansion of the universe, is what astronomers use to measure distance...
...MOVIE DOES HAVE its few funny points, such as Jack's sunburn. After Jack's first day out on the beach, it's hard to tell who is redder, him, or the lobsters he is about to eat. He is so burned that even driving is painful: "I'll be all right, as long as we don't have to make too many turns," he comments...
...eyes, making the search for meaning little more than a vague blur. "Do you read all these books," asks a miner, pointing to a filled shelf. "I skim them," Time and again the books stay blurred; the brown blur could be a first edition Kant, the redder blur could be Bible, but they could just as well be part of the Reader's Digest set of Condensed Books. Imagine Sylvester Stallone re-making Rocky by leaving out all the fight seenes; John Byrum evidently...
...13th round, blaring patriotic music came on the loudspeaker system, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The young men in Cooney's entourage, most of them grade-school buddies from Long Island, pressed together around him in his corner, and some of their eyes were redder than his. The sparrowlike head of Ray Arcel poked through the challenger's huddle, and Holmes' man whispered generously: "Don't get discouraged, Gerry. Keep trying. You're still going to make...