Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civic booster, he promotes Dallas with almost as much zeal as he does his store, works on everything from the Chamber of Commerce to the Symphony Society. But he likes nothing better than discovering things to sell. Once when a woman asked for a dress in a certain shade of buff yellow she had seen in a painting, Marcus had a fabric dyed to order in New York, made up a dress specially for her for only $42. The next season Neiman's "buff yellow" was a bestseller and a fashion...
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger (Folkways). Only a tossed coin could choose between Burl Ives and Pete Seeger in folk-song appeal. Purists may find Seeger's numbers a shade more authentic or the twang of his guitar a trifle more personable...
...have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows (and curtains--all the same shade of gold) at approximately the same time; those of us to the west hibernate in the afternoon because of the same windows and curtains; all of us inhabit cells which are precisely the same size, and our bathrooms are situated one under the other, layer after layer. This, I submit...
...reach its expected output of just over 100 million tons in 1960, the steel industry will have to operate at about 70% capacity for the year. Yet the industry operated at 100.9% of capacity in the Korean wartime year of 1951 to produce only a shade more-105.2 million tons...
...first-person reverie; a stream of consciousness, then a torrent, then a willful, feminine shutting down of thought. Germaine is mirrored in the flow of words as well as in their content. Prose of a different texture would be necessary if she were older, or merely pretty, or a shade less turbulent...