Word: reddish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NAME RIDGE is a barren, useless place with a few scrub bushes and a patch of reddish soil in the center, the result of a landslide in some forgotten rainy season. To the right, a dark gully scars its side. It is called No Name Ridge for the quite straightforward reason that it has no name. But No Name Ridge will not be forgotten by the U.S. Marine Corps...
...Meen found no meteoric iron, only a reddish rock that might prove to be the peculiar stony material of which some meteorites are made. But there was plenty of other evidence that some enormous body had buried itself in the earth: shattered blocks of stone from football to freight-car size, and concentric circles in the granite around the crater, like ripples stirred up by a pebble dropped into still water...
...Juneau's flag bridge, Admiral Higgins was wrapped snugly in a wool-lined sea jacket. A veteran destroyer man whose steel blue eyes are set deeply in a reddish tan face with a hard strong jaw, he commands four U.S. warships...
...Aragvi, a good meal costs 100 to 175 rubles ($25 to $43) a head, depending on the amount of vodka and reddish Caucasian champagne consumed. Monthly pay of an average Russian is about 600 rubles...
Even through a large telescope, Mars looks like a small reddish disc doing a slightly hysterical dance. But delicate instruments can measure with fair accuracy on its barren surface the temperature of spots as small as 400 miles wide. Since differences of temperature (which make an atmosphere circulate) are the basic cause of weather, measurements of temperature can be translated into a crude weather...