Word: ashenness
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...bedroom light came on, blinding Young for a moment. She saw fractured images. A butcher knife shining against her roommate's throat. Her roommate's pinched, ashen face. A man in a blue nylon jacket and sneakers holding the knife. The stranger ordered Young to turn over onto her stomach and keep her face to the wall. For three hours on that cool night three months ago, he repeatedly raped and sodomized Young as her roommate lay trembling on the floor beside them...
Borth the Rosenbergs had prepared for the possibility of Julius' receiving the maximum sentence. But despite the rumors in the newspapers, Ethel's sentence came as a terrible shock ... Visibly shaken and ashen-faced ... Ethel had tried to bolster her own and her husband's spirits by singing the aria Un bel di from Madame Butterfly in a clear though tremulous voice. Julius, no musician, had responded with The Battle Hymn of the Republic, a brave if rather grimly impersonal answer to Puccini's aria of love and longing...
...turn in White House thinking. Though Reagan had always insisted that military spending must be exempt from budgetary restraints, he is now proposing a reduction for the sole purpose of shrinking the deficit. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who fought against the cuts and lost, made that reasoning explicit. Ashen-faced and biting off his words, Weinberger declared, "If it were not for the deficit, we would not have any suggestion that we not carry out the full program...
...Hoare entertained visitors with tales of his derring-do and signed copies of his swashbuckling biography, entitled Congo Mercenary. But last week the bravado was gone from the man who used to run a swaggering group of commandos in the Congo who called themselves the Wild Geese. His face ashen, Hoare, 63, slumped in his chair in a Pietermaritzburg courtroom as Judge Neville James found him and 42 fellow mercenaries guilty of airplane hijacking and sentenced Mad Mike to ten years in prison...
...boys float in the South Atlantic, and there is no doubt on earth what those dark festivals were leading to. Last Monday, after the sinking of the cruiser General Belgrano, British armchair admirals were smugly analytical about the deficiencies of the Argentine forces. One day later Mrs. Thatcher listened ashen-faced in the House of Commons as her Defense Secretary announced the death toll from the destroyer Sheffield. Sobered, the world sat upright. It was precisely because the war had seemed so playful initially that it seemed so dreadful now. If anything, it appeared worse than it was, so shocked...