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Word: complexion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lightheartedly, French Novelist Pierre Daninos said yes when ECA asked him to write the captions for a NATO movie cartoon. Then, because this made him a foreign employee of a U.S. Government agency, Daninos received the usual four-page questionnaire asking about his 1) birth & parentage, 2) complexion & distinctive body marks, 3) emotional & mental state, 4) drinking habits, 5) aliases, if any, 6) connections with the Communist Party, if any, 7) past & present employment in detail-and some 50 other questions. Daninos filled in the questionnaire, named three character references, duly swore that he had no intention of "upsetting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Louse for a Louse | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...Being only vaguely informed about the U.S., I would like to proceed with an 'investigation check.'" Sample questions directed at the U.S.: "1) What were you doing before the discovery of America? (List of residences before and after 1492-complete history of employment.) 2) What is your complexion? Distinctive marks and characteristics? 3) References: give the names of three major and responsible countries, not related to you by blood or alliance, qualified to give precise information about you. 4) Are you suffering from any serious troubles? (Political? Mental? Epidemic?). 5) May I consider that during the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Louse for a Louse | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...first book, his only book of poetry. Babbling April owed both its mood and title to Edna St. Vincent Millay, and it was pretty frail stuff.* The really big thing that happened to Greene at Oxford was meeting Vivien Dayrell-Browning, a dark, pretty girl with a flawless complexion, and a Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shocker | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...part. He typifies the Russian revolutionary of the old Lenin school. His face is very impressionable, with small slanting eyes and high Mongolian cheekbones. His short, refund body, with a slight lunch to the shoulders, suggests a great emotional and moral force. He has a gray, wrinkled complexion which tells the mixed story of his life laughter and story-telling around a campfire with the rebelling crew of the Battleship Potemkin combined with the anger and frustration of being a political prisoner of Nazi Germany...

Author: By Frank B. Ensign jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/24/1951 | See Source »

...swirling eddy of interest around Ava Gardner is no fluke. Though Hollywood's rulers, whose egos are as tender as a redhead's complexion, are understandably reluctant to admit it, the movies have had to take up arms against a sea of troubles. Recovered from the first shock but still haunted by the specter of TV, beset by mounting production costs, harried by a falling box office, Hollywood is also facing an unexpected shortage in its most vital commodity of all-the mysterious attraction that everybody recognizes but no one has ever .been able to label more accurately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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