European colonizers of modern-day Latin America encouraged the whitening of Indians and blacks.
Loach's airy dismissal on Radio 4 of his whitening of our history was simple: "That's how it was.
Cirrostratus is a "very subtle" cloud that can be nothing more than a milky whitening of the sky.
"Miscegenation and racial mixing were actually encouraged under the guise of 'blanqueamiento' — the concerted whitening of the nation," Dr. Edwards said.
Artificial whitening of clouds may produce a local benefit, but if extended globally it may well have a devastating impact on crop growth.
Coral bleaching, whitening of coral that results from the loss of a coral's symbiotic algae (zooxanthellae) or the degradation of the algae's photosynthetic pigment.
Winter whitening of the willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus) and varying hare (Lepus) are examples of a shift in camouflage coincident with a change in the background coloration.
The light in the garden told her that; and the whitening of the flowers and something grey in the leaves conspired together, to rouse in her a feeling of anxiety".
Over in Amsterdam the whitening of Marco van Basten's dome accelerated a little further as he watched his Ajax creep to a second straight, devastatingly bad, win - this one against NEC.
There's a record player and a collection of jazz albums, and there, suddenly, in the gloaming, is Woody himself, who, give or take a whitening of the hair, and slight hunching of the shoulders, seems equally timeless.
Diners who decry the "whitening" of turkey and chicken meat (as though dry white meat is "finer") should be pleased that all-dark, still semiwild guinea hens have as yet remained juicy, "unrefined" and delicious.
