Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Promise. Jan Smuts's appearance at U.N. recalled that in 1919, as head of a mandates committee, he had implored the Paris Peace Conference to "demonstrate that world . . . opinion is in favor of the ultimate self-government of all peoples, without distinction as to race, religion or color...
...shortage of pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal the card in an envelope as he stood in the secret polling booth...
...pioneers from Europe who settled it. Starting from scratch on a barren, rock-strewn hilltop, they wind up, two years later, with a self-sufficient agricultural community supporting 300. Another novelist might have made this the whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through, and for all the occasional flashes of narrative brilliance, many readers will feel that they have read not so much a novel as a kind of polemical White Paper...
Winnie the Enemy. Mclntire's principal clues to his master's condition were simply "[his] color, the tone of his voice, the tilt of his chin, and the way he tackled his orange juice, cereal, and eggs." He got F.D.R.'s valets to pass on to him any pertinent details. He learned to peek unobtrusively at the height of the presidential workbasket and "the wash" (F.D.R.'s name for the countless documents that required his signature), to estimate the hours of work the President had before him, and to lay plans accordingly. He came to recognize...
...distinguish--among other feats--the color green from yellow...