Word: tinting
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...huge bay windows and impressive brass-wheel chandeliers decorated with stylized tulips. The walls are paneled with mirrors and dark wood, and green stripes adorn all the upholstery. On an overcast day, the interior can verge on the austere, but the sun infuses it with a soft greenish-gold tint that puts patrons instantly at ease. Food is fresh but basic: salads, sandwiches and sweet and savory crepes. Coffee is served in style, arriving in handsome cups printed with a Cubist motif. For Brinek, the café, which may well be the only complete Cubist interior in the world...
...huge bay windows and impressive brass-wheel chandeliers decorated with stylized tulips. The walls are paneled with mirrors and dark wood, and green stripes adorn all the upholstery. On an overcast day, the interior can verge on the austere, but the sun infuses it with a soft greenish-gold tint that puts patrons instantly at ease. Food is fresh but basic: salads, sandwiches and sweet and savory crepes. Coffee is served in style, arriving in handsome cups printed with a Cubist motif. For Brinek, the caf?, which may well be the only complete Cubist interior in the world, has been...
EADS is not alone. In recent years foreign companies have streamed into American burgs to tint themselves red, white and blue enough to tempt the world's biggest shopper: the U.S. Department of Defense. The 25 countries of the European Union spend only about half what the U.S. does on defense, even though the Continent has a larger GDP than the U.S. has. Since Sept. 11, the Pentagon's budget has increased 41%--to $419 billion a year. Ralph Crosby, the West Point graduate and defense-industry veteran who runs EADS's North American operations, says the company, which sells...
Mansfield offered another hypothesis for the bluish tint to the ivory tower...
...arched back and his eyes, only half open and dazed, were searching for something. There was nothing close here for this man--his was a moment of complete loneliness ... Everywhere there was blood pouring out of him. Even the transparent, plastic splints around both legs had assumed a red tint. I felt weak. My stomach began to twist and sweat poured all over me. I sat down on the floor because I thought I was going to be sick ... It seemed absurd--a man dying alone in his own country. I wanted to cry but I thought that I couldn...