It was the name he gave the orange, bullet-shaped Bell X-1 rocket plane he used to break the sound barrier for the first time, on Oct. 14, 1947, when he was a captain, on a flight over the Mojave Desert.
Over the past 10 years, he has established a company in West Covina, California, devoted to the construction of a privately-run space station made out of discarded space shuttle fuel tanks - the great orange bullets on which the shuttles hurtle into space.
Once protesters threw bottles police started firing orange plastic bullets filled with white powder.
The recent string of shootings, from the first graders in Newtown, CT, to the movie-goers in Aurora, CO, to the high schoolers in Bakersfield, CA, are affecting the way I view these playthings, even though they're neon orange, fire bullets softer than marshmallows and have bumblebee stickers on the barrel.
Perched between the tattered ruins of a flattened landscape, the glow of wireless receiver antennas has gradually replaced the orange glow of stray bullets, bringing a new era of global connectivity and freedom of information to the city's estimated one million residents.
The following year he published the book Magic Cancer Bullet: How a Tiny Orange Pill Is Rewriting Medical History (reissued in 2004), cowritten with Robert Slater, in which he discussed Novartis's breakthrough cancer drug Gleevec, also known as Glivec.
Not silver bullets, but gold 9 millimeters, orange "simunitions" and menacing hollow-points with bronze tips.
Both defendants were wearing bullet-resistant vests under their orange jumpsuits.
To create this effect, Millar attached orange fluorescent cloth to the places that would become the bullet wounds.
The orange cloth was then excised during post-production and the computerized bullet wounds were inserted in their place.
