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  • The 62-year-old Mr. Gupta, the former managing director of consulting firm McKinsey & Co., surrendered to the FBI on Wednesday and was arraigned in a New York federal court, wearing a dark suit and light-red tie.

    Gupta Case Targets Insider Culture Michael Rothfeld 2011

  • The writer has detected arsenic most frequently in light-red, magenta-colored and brown stockings; in one case, that of a child, which came to the writer's knowledge, great inflammation of that portion of the skin which came in contact with the stocking took place first, then occurred symptoms of general poisoning, which resulted in a short time in death.

    Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses - A Dress A Day 2010

  • The writer has detected arsenic most frequently in light-red, magenta-colored and brown stockings; in one case, that of a child, which came to the writer's knowledge, great inflammation of that portion of the skin which came in contact with the stocking took place first, then occurred symptoms of general poisoning, which resulted in a short time in death.

    January 2010 2010

  • And in my own "light-red" county, where Obama beat McCain and Senator-elect Jeff Merkley defeated snake-in-the-grass Republican Gordon Smith, county residents contributed to the ample defeat of an "English only in the schools" state-wide ballot measure.

    Lieberman Aide: Booting Him Would Be Putting Politics Ahead Of Nation's Safety 2009

  • With your help -- and that, we hope, of the DNC -- we can continue moving light-red counties into the purple-and-blue tapestry that is slowly but surely filling up the map of our great nation.

    Julie Fanselow: Red-State Expats: Please Send Money Home 2009

  • Additional lead white was added to certain pigment mixtures to make the light-blue, light-red, and light-purple shades.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • The country from Mount Denison to this is a light-red sandy soil, covered with spinifex, with very little grass, and is nearly a dead level.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • White wines and light-red rosés benefit from about a year of bottle aging, during which time the aroma develops and the amount of free, odorous sulfur dioxide decreases.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • White wines and light-red rosés benefit from about a year of bottle aging, during which time the aroma develops and the amount of free, odorous sulfur dioxide decreases.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Foma, looking askance, saw a broad back; a full neck, covered with freckles; big ears; and the back of the head closely cropped, covered with light-red hair which stood out like bristles.

    The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

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