Word: complexions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some concern was expressed for the leftist complexion such an organization might assume, but only one vote was ultimately registered in dissent. The Council will meet again Thursday for a final deciding vote on the proposal, and President Thomas L. P. O'Donnell '47 declared it was "not unlikely" that the consensus of last night's gathering would be followed...
Oldtime readers of the New Republic raised their eyebrows. For the first time in its 31 years, the opinionated weekly journal of opinion had daubed make-up on its sallow, paper-towel complexion, political cartoons on its restyled cover. Inside, it had jazzed up its austere format like a C.I.O. house organ, had even started a chummy column of office gossip. Recently it stepped farther out of character to buy radio commercials, brazenly courting a mass audience...
Then, with the observation that "wheat has no political complexion," he sent greetings to Argentina's President Juan Peron. "Here," said LaGuardia, "is an opportunity for Argentina to show its desire to cooperate with the rest of the world." But Buenos Aires promptly reported that Argentina's exportable surpluses of wheat were already committed by sale or donation; that was the reason Argentina had declined to join UNRRA...
...reappearing on the trees along Hollywood Boulevard-all these, in their own manner, offered proof that the U.S. was back to some kind of normalcy after four years of war. The uniforms were disappearing; the face of the land and the face of the people took on a prewar complexion...
...Exiled Spanish Republicans, sensing opportunity, composed many of their differences and set up a government in Mexico City under suave, sophisticated Diego Martinez Barrio as President and mild-mannered José Girál y Pereira as Premier. The new government's political complexion was a moderate pink, calculated to please Britain...