Word: coloration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HATES BRITAIN BECOMES GOVERNOR GENERAL, headlined the Daily Mail, and the Daily Herald printed a front-page editorial protest that the Queen should have to receive "the organizer of South Africa's color bar Police State . . . the man 8,000,000 Africans fear . . . who has preached flogging ever since he became Minister of Justice." Added the New Statesman: "He does not hide his detestation of the British connection and his determination to break it. This man is now to kiss hands, receive the seal of office and thus become the official repository of British honor and approval" in South...
...teeming, noisy crowd that moils about the inn, oblivious of the vertiginous angels or of the event they herald. And yet the actions of the ingeniously lifelike, exquisitely crafted figures-whether they eat or drink or play music or sell vegetables-is suffused with a glaze of color and a glow of pleasure that speak of Christmas...
...process takes about a week in either case. At the moment the bronze emerges from the cast, the sculptor generally attends, like an anxious father awaiting the birth of a son. The bronze comes out orange, blue, red, yellow or gold. But these colors, caused by the firing, rapidly fade. Besides the usual bronze color, the Susse secret acids can produce mordant greens, equatorial blues and glossy black...
...vicinity papers and advertisers claiming injury. The cost in embarrassment was great, and that was not all. The financial strain caused the Star to postpone an ambition of many years' standing to print its own Sunday supplement, and kept it from a new effort to improve its lagging color program...
Leonard Bernstein, Marian Anderson, the St. Paul's Cathedral Boys' Choir of Lon don and the Schola Cantorum in a program of Christmas music. Color...