Word: reddish
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...said, "where are you going without a ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak Sinai range. But the driver's yet was indicative. Small red surveyor's pennants are everywhere along the road...
...hearing E. B. White read is worth something. He wrote Charlotte's Web to be read aloud, and in his straight forward style with his traces of Maine accent, he reads it as it should be read, speaking from experience about the life on a farm, about "digging reddish" and about wiping one's hands on a "roller- towel. " Maybe, if you have some friends without a grandfather who'll read aloud at the end of the day, you can get the recording of Charlotte's Web for them...
...Italians barely notice the mess. West Germans give low priority to the fate of Lake Constance, the country's biggest source of fresh water. Last summer the water turned reddish-brown; experts say that Constance is going the way of "dead" Lake Erie. Communist countries are also racing for industrialization, with scant care for the impact on nature. Even Red China admitted last year that its cities had environmental problems. The official dispatches sounded almost smug?as if combatting pollution was a badge of progress...
...order attack on former Representative John Gilligan, an attractive Democrat. Because spreading effects of the General Motors strike were putting Ohioans out of work, Gilligan pointed out that Cloud once voted against paying unemployment benefits to workers idled by a strike at another company. Gilligan is a reddish-haired, booming-voiced Irish American with a crushing handshake and a fiery temper that sometimes gets him into political trouble...
...idealization of everything I've wanted to do as an actor. He typifies where I'm at now-humorous, sexual, innocent and striving for simplicity." Wilder's delicate blend of humor and pathos makes the viewer think he is seeing young Charlie Chaplin with reddish hair and an Irish brogue. It also makes Quackser Fortune one of the most delightful comic dramas in recent years...