Word: shading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to breaking the routine. "Do you," asked Chairman McClellan at one point, "regard your privileges under the Fifth Amendment as transcending your duty and obligations to the laboring men of this country who belong to your union?" Beck's rare-roast-beef face turned an even deeper shade, his head shot forward, his lips moved as he shaped an outraged reply. Just in time, his sad-faced lawyer, Arthur Condon, drove a swift knuckle into the small of Beck's back. Three times Beck started to answer; three times Condon's knuckle dug into his spine...
...consist of bits of colored glass held together by colorless enamel. A gemmiste works from a painting, transcribing it onto a horizontal plate of glass (lighted from below) by juxtaposing and superimposing pieces of glass which have an incredible variety of colors, shapes and sizes. Virtually any intensity or shade of color can be obtained by superimposing colors in proper combinations...
...evil intents are masked beneath his proposal to forbid billboards from the sides of Federal highways. The Senator knows full well how much gophers like shade when 4 p.m. on a hot summer's eve is at hand. He is also well aware that when holes are dug to plant the billboards, it gives the digging creatures a helping hand...
...favor political failure and social commentary, walk swiftly into the room, quickly close the door, stride across the room and pull down the shade, then clasp the interviewer's hand in yours and say, "Comrade!" The frankest approach and perhaps the easiest way to fail is to smirk as you shake hands and say, "Is this really necessary...
...behind the iron gates of Paris' aristocratic and ancient mansions. With them, manners and grooming are topmost; with enough of them, one of the couturier's necessary secrets is who pays for the lady's dress. An elegant Frenchwoman will spend hours searching for the exact shade of stocking to go with a certain dress, spend days debating the choice of a dress or a hat. At her couturier, she will sit down, stand, squirm and wiggle to test her dress for an unsightly wrinkle here, a crease there, for she knows that when she dines...