Word: violet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be a leader of a largeI number of men," Lord Mountbatten once observed, "you can't go around like a shrinking violet hiding yourself: you've got to put on a bit of an act. It must be sincere, it's no good having a bogus act. You've got to play up any qualities you have and blow them up larger than life...
...Maniototo is not necessarily plain in New Zealand's centeral Otago; the region may exist only in the wonderfully deranged mind of novel's narrator, herself a chimera of identities. She is, at various stages, Violet Pansy Proudlock, a ventriloquist: Mavis Barwell, widow of a French teacher turned debt collector; and Alice Thumb, a novelist...
Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, describing Elizabeth Taylor in his comic strip Doonesbury: "A tad overweight, but with violet eyes...
...still see the editors occasionally, but Don will be in full charge of the paper. He'll report to corporate like the other managers, but there's a lot of autonomy in the job." As a Post editor points out, however, Mrs. Graham is "not a shrinking violet." She also controls 50.1% of the voting stock, now worth $20 million, vs. Donald's 13% (the other Graham children have 15% among them). Some measure of how much real authority the Post's new $90,000-a-year publisher will have should come as the paper sets...
...down on Sydney. What could possibly be causing it all? The National Weather Bureau assures everyone that these mysterious phenomena are only the side effects of industrial pollution. But are they? As thousands of tiny frogs appear in the city's streets and the sky takes on a pulsing violet glow, it looks like there might be something a bit more sinister than carbon monoxide behind Sydney's strange weather, something far more deadly...