Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blue's a Lovely Color. At Labor headquarters, too, it was exciting-in a different way. Morgan Phillips was feverishly scribbling calculations on bits of blue paper. One Laborite looked at the news ticker, whispered, "We're down to 24." Everyone heard him. The ticker throbbed on. Phillips' ashtray overflowed. He sat back silent, jaw in hand; then he got up, glanced out of the window, sat down again and lighted another cigarette. The voice at the ticker spoke again: "We're down to four-no, three-no, four . . ." At 4:45 p.m. Phillips looked across...
...Abbey House, young staff women excitedly raced up & down the worn stone stairs, screeching to each other: "Darling, isn't it too wonderful? We're winning." Upstairs, in his map-lined office, Tory Party Chief Lord Woolton lovingly contemplated a constituency map. "Blue's a lovely color," he beamed as he contentedly flagged Tory wins with blue-headed pins. Downstairs, someone dared to murmur: "Those horrible Labor divisions in Scotland haven't come in yet." But the Cassandra was howled down by a fresh wave of cheering as still another Tory win was chalked...
...sends her child to an American public school over the objection of a priest can be denied absolution in the confessional." This, he said, was "theological coercion" and added: "Segregation on the basis of creed can be just as damaging to American democracy as segregation on the basis of color...
...told," drawled Mississippi's red-haired Bill Colmer, "that [FEPC] would prevent discrimination in private employment because of race, color, creed or national origin". . . but the proponents ... do not point out that it is the most flagrant proposal for the regimentation of business...
...propinquity and persistence eventually triumphed over zoology. Snow White and Ramona produced two litters of cubs, four of which lived. At first they were white like their father, later turned brown like their mother. As they grew into big bears, their color faded to a compromise buff...