Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the slow rise of nationalism, Africa's political complexion changed very little from 1914 to 1950. It was in the '50s that the nationalist movement spread into the general populations of blacks living in empires carved by Europeans in the decade and a half imperialist scramble for Africa in the late 1800s. By 1960 almost all of Africa was either independent or close to attaining independence. Currently there are 40 sovereign black nations in Africa. Portugal alone still clings to Angola and Mozambique as tokens of Portuguese grandeur during European expansion...
...woman with the sad eyes and soft complexion sits in the entranceway to the kitchen, framed by the doorway. But the tranquility of this picture of Frank's mother shatters when a raucous voice on the radio blares out, "Gonna' have some fun tonight, gonna' have some fun tonight..." Three meticulously-dressed students walk into the House a bit sluggishly. Two of them slink over to the one empty table, next to the Coke machine, and sit down with a weary thud. The other, wearing purpletinted glasses and a long crimson scarf, goes up to the counter and, yawning, tells...
...notion that there is mystery to science. "I think we are in the middle of a very significant change in the way science relates to society. It has become so relevant--relevant to the very life and death of all people," he warns. Just as wider education changed the complexion of science in the 18th and 19th centuries, he says, an increased consciousness of the history of science is essential to controlling...
...will get a cent for its expropriated properties. Chileans who took a conciliatory line toward Anaconda and Kennecott pointedly said nothing at all about ITT. After the scandal about ITT's alleged interference in internal Chilean politics, it would be difficult for any Chilean government of whatever ideological complexion to befriend the giant conglomerate...
...picture in the Freshman Register. Not that it was a glamorous picture by the standards of any other place. In any style-conscious suburb, it would have passed as an ordinary look, made out of the touch-up job that money buys: the dentist-made perfect teeth, the smooth complexion, the tan from the West Indies, the European sense of style, the hair subtly streaked, the wide open look and confident carriage from knowing none but a comfortable world. The picture looked like every other rich girl that looks like the "California Girl." But at Harvard, it was glamorous...