Word: blacker
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...challenging, he risks losing the vote of whites who like him precisely because he does not challenge. And if his natural bargaining wins white votes, he risks losing black votes to Hillary Clinton. Why? Because Hillary Clinton always identifies with black challengers like Al Sharpton. This makes her "blacker" than Barack Obama...
...CONTRAST RATIO This ratio (e.g., 600 to 1) represents the difference between a screen's brightest and darkest colors. A higher ratio is better. "Contrast as a concept is really important," says Poor. "The blacker your blacks, the more punch you have to your colors." But TV makers use differing standards to calculate the numbers, so comparing them is "almost useless," says Poor. So how do you judge contrast? First view the TV from the front, then see how badly the image fades from the side. If all the sets are on the same channel, it's fairly easy...
...Friday, May 28, 1909 diary entry from Phillips details her first election meeting: “The voting was awfully exciting, and rather terrifying…I put in my first blackball when it came to Winnie, and I must say I felt blacker than it, but rather important all the same. I wasn’t a bit crazy about having Winnie in; she gets on my nerves outrageously...
...scraping coiffures, it’s weighed down by attempting to touch on the more serious subject of southern segregation. While Tracy’s interactions with black classmate Seaweed J. Stubs are filled with elaborate dance sequences and songs with catchy choruses (like “The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice”), the musical plays lightly with this painfully complex period in American history. Clichéd lines such as, “We’re not so different after all. We all just want to have...
...officials?are more worried that Washington could respond to a Pyongyang provocation with military action, plunging the peninsula into war. From South Korea's perspective, "they have two black boxes to deal with?the North Koreans and the U.S. government," said a Seoul-based Western diplomat. Which box is blacker? According to a poll published last week by the Munhwa Ilbo daily and the Korea Society Opinion Institute, nearly one in two South Koreans say they would support North Korea if the U.S. launches a military strike without the South's consent. In a poll conducted last year by Seoul...