Word: complexion
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...recognize all of the progressive steps which have been taken by the Law School. However, we are not satisfied. Short-term and part-time appointments do not change the complexion of the Law School's tenured faculty. We are acutely aware that short-term palliatives simply do not resolve the fundamental problem of the legacy of de facto racial exclusion in tenured faculty appointments at Harvard and most other law schools...
Gregory then vowed. "We are going to change the complexion of America...
...must be assigned to one of four racial categories: white, black, "colored" (mixed race), or Asian. According to the country's elaborate apartheid code, Lize should have been classified on the basis of her "appearance," along with "habits, education and speech in general." But while Lize's complexion was darkish, because she was an infant it was impossible to apply the standard criteria...
...Hawaii. All visitors, movies, alcohol and dogs are banned from the 18-mile-long island, and Government officials are not permitted to spend the night among the 226 residents, most of whom still claim pure Hawaiian ancestry. On the mainland, small ironies continue to tinge a region's complexion. New Yorkers complain about the Hispanization of the Big Apple, while New Mexicans of Spanish descent grump that their state is becoming too Anglo...
Four minutes. Nothing. At three minutes to the hour, a blood-red Mercedes screeches through the gate, careering into a reserved parking place. Out pops a 5-ft. 3-in., 99-lb. woman who, with her porcelain complexion, delicate features and glistening black hair, might pass for a Kabuki doll. As she scampers along on 2-in. wooden platform shoes, her mouth is al eady moving faster than her feet...