Word: violet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them White lent the best of his sense of color. White's skies, like Turner's, open on a sudden drenching spectrum, but. unlike Turner, the colors are never more than mute. White's palette, even at its rawest, never offered an indelicate hue: violet was his moodiest color...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...
...serpentine gorge, often no more than two yards wide, could hold up an army. Today, the narrow three-mile course is traveled by thousands of tourists who go to gape at the elaborate tombs and temples built into rock that is colored crimson, sepia, brown and violet, like watered silk...
...Tunku's first wife, who died of malaria in 1935-was the mother of his two children, Daughter Kathijah, 29, wife of a Malayan studying in Britain, and Son Xerang, 27, now a major in the Malayan army. His second wife was a white Englishwoman, Violet Coulson, whom he married over the protests of his family; they were divorced...
Astronomers were stumped by the bright, mysterious bodies. What was causing all the radio noise? Even photographs of the stars' spectra-all the wave lengths of emitted light, from red to violet-were no help. A star's spectrum is its individual signature, but none of these five spectra bore any resemblance to the spectrum of any other star...