Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voting tendency of various groups still retains the general complexion which it has had ever since Franklin Roosevelt took office...
...little man with a hook nose, sunken cheeks, deep sunken eyes. He is French and he wears a string of medals. He looks like an Egyptian mummy, except for the queer glitter in his colorless eyes. Another French officer is fat. His eyebrows slant upward. His normal complexion is purple-red-that of a man bursting with rage...
There was trouble between Moscow and London this week. A row broke into the open, ostensibly over the shape and complexion of postwar Poland. But the sound of the brawling stirred the old ghosts which plain people everywhere had hoped were laid for good & all at Teheran...
...termites on the old seats in the second balcony was checked, and the ornate walls were repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few feet above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knockout punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus...
...Alpine Station. By week's end, with the Germans occupying Rome for the first time since the year 1527, with most of the Italian fleet in Allied hands, with Adriatic seaports in Allied possession, the whole complexion of World War II had suddenly changed enormously...