"Color" = "information"?!

[Wilson Gray]

>From Slashdot:

"[Mossberg] declined to give any _color_ about the questions he and
Swisher are preparing [for the conference]."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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