All 15 Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Franklin Sousley: Hilltop, Kentucky The mountains are high and steep in eastern Kentucky, blue-shadowed and cut by nearly vertical hollows and plunging river gorges.†
Chpt 2.
- A sleepy American Sunday afternoon in early December, Yuletide season in the air, roast chicken dinners finished, and the dishes washed, family radios tuned to Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade on the NBC Red Network, or a Great Plays presentation of The Inspector General on the Blue, or perhaps the pro football game between the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles...And then suddenly urgent bulletins crackling through static.†
Chpt 3.
- At about the time he got his draft notice, the handsome young boy had spotted the famous Marine recruiting poster and was knocked out by the uniform, by those snazzy dress blues and whites.†
Chpt 4. *
- He stepped off the train in his Marine dress blues looking straight as a string.†
Chpt 4.
- On top of the seawall, just beyond his upraised hand, lies a blue-and-white flag, a beach marker to tell succeeding waves where to land.†
Chpt 4.
- The winning design, created by a lieutenant named Fergus Young, was a scarlet shield and gold V, pierced by a spearhead of blue.†
Chpt 5.
- One Marine later remembered it as "a huge hunk of green jade shimmering in the dark blue of the Pacific Ocean."†
Chpt 5.
- The sky turned blue and clear.†
Chpt 7.
- Gazing upward at the red, white, and blue speck, Forrestal remarked to Smith: "Holland, the raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next five hundred years."†
Chpt 11.
- As the boys around him dove to the ground, Franklin swatted absently at his back, as though brushing away a blue-tailed fly.†
Chpt 13.
- A commentator on the NBC Blue network baldly asserted that the image had been "carefully posed" by Joe.†
Chpt 15. *
- Now, on one glorious afternoon, these solid-core Americans could flow together into one large red-white-and-blue celebratory mass—could stand in the sunshine with the heroes in the "immortal" frieze, and be as one with them.†
Chpt 16.
- That night, John would be interviewed coast-to-coast on the NBC Blue network, his last "hero" broadcast before he left the service.†
Chpt 17.
- He probably dressed in the type of clothing he wore for any normal workday: a short-sleeved cotton shirt, open at the collar; blue jeans with the cuffs rolled high in the style of that time; work boots.†
Chpt 17.
- I remember how he gave a half smile at me, then looked back at the TV—the blue screen reflecting in his glasses—then shook his head, sighed, glanced at me again.†
Chpt 20.
Definitions:
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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 notesBlue 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.
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(2)
(blues as in: feeling the blues) feelings of sadness or depression
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(3)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) "Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.