Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temperature got down to 41°) engineers hurried pontoon bridges across the Raquette. Before dawn, while the bridges were still abuilding, infantrymen paddled across in assault boats, and rifle fire bit the dark. Again Hugh Drum's fast-moving motorized column, riding a motley assortment of green, red and white trucks, turned up on the Blacks' south flank. By noon the Blues' artillery had crossed the Raquette behind the infantry. With pleased but dead-pan faces at the power of tactics which threatened to about-face the invaders and back them against the St. Lawrence, umpires called...
...images did flicker through Trotsky's injured brain last week, some of them must have been of those great days when War Commissar Leon Trotsky whipped the demoralized rabble of the crushed Imperial Army into a new Red Army, drove the Whites and their allies out of Russia; the proclaiming of the Third International when he hoped that world revolution was at hand. There were also mistakes to remember, particularly the mistake of failing to return to Moscow for Lenin's funeral, a failure which under mined his popularity with the people, made him vulnerable to Stalin...
...last week Lin Yutang, tired from two nights in & out of dugouts, heard an alarm and again made his way to one of the vast caverns cut into the sides of Chungking's red-and-grey sandstone mountain. There he sat hunched up from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. At one point two bombs landed directly above the dugout's 70-foot rock roof, three in front of its plugged entrance. The place shook for 15 seconds, and concussion-wind rushed through it, blacking out the oil lamps...
Ogilvy's first story was headlined in bold red ink: "Stock show managers working like beavers; rapidly getting ready for exposition that means so much to western breeders; how to prevent horses slipping on streets." He has been writing similar stories ever since, is a shrewd judge of horseflesh
...prepare a glue, the scientists withdrew blood from an artery of a young cock, spun it in a centrifuge. The heavy red blood cells were thrown away and the clear plasma packed on ice where it stayed fresh for six weeks. Into the plasma the experimenters poured a few drops of chicken embryo extract, "a powerful clotting agent...