Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen Mary watched a small boy perusing a globe on which Britain's possessions were tinted with the traditional color. "Isn't it nice," she remarked in the nearest thing to a political pronouncement she has ever permitted herself, "that so much of it is in red...
Proclaiming her unshaken belief that the bones actually were those of the last Aztec ruler, Eulalia Guzman packed up for another trip to Ixcateopan. The red-faced Bank of Mexico kept its own counsel. One question remained unsolved: Was the hoax the work of a 20th Century man, or had it been perpetrated by some long-forgotten 16th Century prankster...
Castro and his family had at least survived. In Guatemala City, government officials estimated the dead in the rains and floods at 4,000. Red Cross Official Edward Russell, who led a U.S. relief party from Panama, thought 500 more likely. At least 20,000 were homeless...
...Portland school board had other evidence. A mother wrote in to describe what had happened to her son on Hell Night. "He hardly looked human. He was covered with blood, molasses and sawdust, and was shaking with spasms ... He was covered with red marks across his back and buttocks, the latter broken in many places and swollen . . . His teeth chattered so that he could not talk...
...early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like that of a glistening machine designed and put together by a master engineer...