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blues
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The Hunt for Red October
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All graduates of the Vilnius Academy, many the "sons" of Marko and Natalia, they were men who owed their place and their rank to Ramius; men who cursed the inability of their country to build submarines worthy of their skills; men who had joined the Party as told and then become even more dissatisfied with the Motherland as they learned that the price of advancement was to prostitute one's mind and soul, to become a highly paid parrot in a blue jacket whose every Party recitation was a grating exercise in self-control.†
Chpt 3.
His blue eyes had a deceptively vacant look; he was often lost in thought, his face on autopilot as his mind puzzled through data or research material for his current book.†
Chpt 4.
It was in a fairly nondescript building, uninspired government layer cake, with windowless concrete walls, a large air-conditioning system on a flat roof, and an acronym-coded blue sign on a well-tended but now yellowed lawn.†
Chpt 4.
Padorin's navy-blue jacket was ablaze with ribbons and the gold star medal of the most coveted award in the Soviet Military, Hero of the Soviet Union.†
Chpt 5.
Nearly all of the blue-water ships assigned to their Northern Fleet are now at sea, accompanied by all of their fast fleet-replenishment vessels.†
Chpt 6.
There was a marine standing inside the hatch, a corporal, resplendent in striped blue trousers, khaki shirt and tie, and snow-white pistol belt.†
Chpt 7.
The light was intense, but the sky's color was noticeably deeper than the soft blue seen from the ground.†
Chpt 7.
The merchantmen were white, with flags to identify their nationality; the Soviet ships were red, and their shapes depicted their ship type; the American and allied ships were blue.†
Chpt 8.
Tyler was technically a civilian, even though his suits were still navy blue.†
Chpt 8.
Admiral, I used to wear the blue suit.†
Chpt 8.
It takes time for men used to blue skies and fresh air to learn the regime inside a thirty-two-foot-diameter steel pipe.†
Chpt 8.
He saw the paint on the forward bulkhead turn black, and his last impression was of a dark mass surrounded with the blue glow.†
Chpt 8.
He could see the Sentry now, its blue paint blending neatly into the darkening sky.†
Chpt 9.
He'd commanded the Ethan Allen for three years, alternating his gold crew with another officer's blue crew, working out of Holy Loch, Scotland.†
Chpt 10.
A chief yeoman looked the designation up in a catalog and did not like what he found—Pave Pat Blue 76.†
Chpt 10. *
Pave Pat Blue 76 was a bomb, and the Ethan Allen had four of them aboard.†
Chpt 10.
Suddenly the Kirov was inside a box of blue-white magnesium light.†
Chpt 11.
He was in his early twenties, if that, and his clear blue eyes were staring at the overhead while he tried to say something.†
Chpt 14.
The blue eyes fixed on Jack's face.†
Chpt 14.
They had put four Pave Pat Blue bombs on the Ethan Allen.†
Chpt 14.
The Pave Pat Blue was a FAE (fuel-air explosive) bomb.†
Chpt 14.
Blue Boys, this is Blue King.†
Chpt 16.
Blue Boys, this is Blue King.†
Chpt 16.

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(1) (blues as in: sings the blues)
a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a "soulful" or melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

Blue notes are notes that are sung or played slightly lower than they would be in the major scale—especially the flattened third, fifth, and seventh degrees.
(2) (blues as in: feeling the blues)
feelings of sadness or depression
(3) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
"Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.

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The Hunt for Red October
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