Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted on the use of a few stock phrases ("As it must to all men, Death came . . .") as a trademark. The double-jointed adjectives and inverted sentences...
...order had a drastic effect on war news in Shanghai's 25 Chinese and four English-language newspapers. Before the order, the newspapers had carried such headlines as: KASHING CAPTURED BY RED TROOPS ; COMMUNISTS RACING SOUTH, EAST TO ISOLATE SHANGHAI AREA. Post-Censorship headlines: HASHING STILL IN GOVERNMENT HANDS; SHANGHAI AREA GUARDED BY CRACK GOVERNMENT TROOPS...
Flame & Fight. There had been plenty of reports to keep Project Saucer busy. In January 1948, an object like "an ice cream cone topped with red" was sighted by several observers over Godman Air Force Base, Ft. Knox, Ky. Three fighter planes flew off in pursuit. Captain Thomas F. Mantell chased the object to 20,000 ft., later crashed, probably from lack of oxygen, and died...
Thirteen Crimson hits and ten walks from four Exeter pitchers gave the Yardlings six runs in the first three innings, seven in the fourth, and the four more in the sixth and seventh. The Red and Gray committed five errors...
...spent its strength and dropped back out of the money in the final half-mile, however, leaving Navy and Penn to stage a close and thrilling fight for second. Both these crews were rowing a 36 for the latter part of the race, with the Red and Blue pushing the stroke up to 38 at the end to finish a bare second ahead of the Middies...