Word: complexions
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...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...
More mature judges-a painter, a sculptor and a photographer-agreed that Lenore's honey-colored hair, green-grey eyes (she is nearsighted, often wears glasses), peaches-&-cream complexion were characteristically Canadian. They refrained from comment on her streamlined figure which is neither Canadian nor classic...
...editor was in; another out. These latest of many shifts were news because they served to underline the current editorial drift of the most influential of the little leftists: the Nation and the New Republic. The two sisters with one complexion are now firmly on a "my ally, right or wrong" policy towards Russia...
...doctor in his diary: "He looked old and troubled. For a quarter of a century he had been a soldier preparing no doubt for the real thing. It had come and this was the end." ¶A young subaltern with "dark eyes under long lashes, a pink and white complexion" was sent to Moran for "vetting." "He made every possible excuse to put off my examination . . . but [his commanding officer] told him to get a move on. When the lad stripped, we found he was wearing a coat of mail under his vest." ¶ Another entry in the Moran diary...