Word: greenishness
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...Army soldiers have boots of thick leather, or of greenish-yellow felt, known as Valenkis. Last winter those boots saved them from the fate of thousands of German soldiers who froze to death or were crippled by the cold. This winter Russian boots will walk on the faces of thousands of dead Germans...
...Said a German correspondent broadcasting from the Stalingrad front: "The horizon seems to heave up. Gigantic mushrooms of greenish black and white are spreading everywhere. On my right Panzers are in position. Straight ahead infantry have reached the first houses...
...silver-haired, mountainous (6 ft. 3 in.) Mr. Jones turned the cold greenish eyes of his poker face to his enemies, warded off unlikely questions with a "Huh?" and heard only what he wanted to hear through his good right ear. Said he: "Of course we look out for protection of the Government. That's our job. We see that the contracts protect the United States...
Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...
...That concealing coloration is not accident is in part proved, Cott says, by the astonishing variety of color-causes. Some caterpillars are green because their blood absorbs chlorophyll from their food; others because they are transparent, revealing the green food inside them. A South American sloth acquires a concealing greenish hue from symbiotic algae which live...