Word: complexions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scatter-Gun. Meriweather lived in a cellar until he developed a "skyscraper shadow complexion," and he dieted rigorously on Martinis, barbiturates and tongue-on-rye. Thus able to pass as a Northerner, Ol´ Fearless invaded Manhattan. His grim findings: gangsters, muggings, class warfare, prejudice, "rapine and horrible death ... at every turnstile...
...overthrown as El Salvador's president, diabetic, aging (60) General Salvador Castaneda Castro has occupied a cell in the capital's drab concrete Central Penitentiary. Cut off from his hair dye and face powder, the vain old man has watched his mane resume its whiteness, his complexion its Indian bronze. Guards passing his tidy cell peer in to see their model prisoner seated on an army cot, thumbing through his meager four-volume library as he awaits trial on charges of "colossal graft...
...months ago, a young lady called Professor Margenau and asked him to speak to The New Haven Youth Movement. With no knowledge of the group's political complexion, he accepted the invitation...
Under the new team, the Star had gained in ads and circulation (from 98,000 to 141,000), but costs had gone up too. The weekly deficit had risen from $15,000 to $30,000. The Star had suffered from PM's reddish complexion and amateurish approach. It had been stuck with distribution contracts, and wire-service costs that it could not afford ($72,000 a year...
...Flagstad, a robust 53 with a dairymaid's complexion, her return to Norway was simply a question of going home to her family, which was in danger. "I never thought of it any other way," she says...