But many Social Democrats, in Hamburg and at headquarters in Bonn, would not forgive him if he turned down a possible red-green alliance in favour of one combining Social with Christian Democrats.

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Then he turned pale, then bright red.

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Then he turned to me, his eyes moist and red.

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Then with a flick of his igniter he lit a gorging fire that turned the evening sky red and yellow and black.

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"There are people in Australia who stay in bed because they cannot afford to stay warm, " he shouted, as his rosy face turned a deeper shade of red.

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He flew in by way of Stalingrad, where the Red Army had turned back the Germans that winter.

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