Word: colored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acted almost like butter. Chemists had purified it, changed its consistency and injected it with Vitamin A. They had reduced the size of its water particles so that, when heated, it sizzled and foamed instead of popping and spattering. The only difference (besides its cheaper price) was its color. The dairy lobby had persuaded most states to forbid or restrict the sale of colored oleo; it had prodded Congress in 1902 to impose a 10?-a-pound tax on the colored product...
...this method insure getting the best of all possible defense programs? Critics of Congress pointed to the lawmakers' ignorance of a highly specialized business* and to the fact that politics were bound to color their views; e.g., their prejudice against universal military training. Supporters of Congress pointed out that it was simply following the usual democratic method which, in the long run, the U.S. held to be the best method...
...illustrate his Portrait of Picasso, Sabartés used the four portraits Picasso had painted of him. The first one, dated 1901 and titled The Glass of Beer, had been just as shocking to turn-of-the-century tastes (Sabartés had found its color "shrieking" at first) as the final version-showing Sabartés as a dizzily distorted clown-seems in midcentury...
...Color Line. By repealing a 62-year-old law, New Jersey became the first of the 21 "butter" states to allow margarine manufacturers to color their product yellow for retail sale...
...Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...