Word: ashenness
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...ashen smooth...
Only minutes before the verdict was read, Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey had told reporters that he was hopeful of a favorable outcome because the jury had been out for so short a time. Now he turned ashen. The verdict, he said bitterly, only fulfilled the prophecies of Patty's captors; he recalled that members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, who kidnaped Patty on Feb. 4, 1974, had warned her that "if you go back, society is going to be very harsh, and they are going to punish...
...Yoshio Kodama, the 65-year-old ultranationalist who was allegedly paid more than $7 million of the $12 million of payola handed out in Japan by Lockheed. Investigators from the national tax agency, Tokyo police and the Public Prosecutor's office struck at 9 a.m. While Kodama lay ashen-faced and ailing-he is recuperating from a stroke-the probers combed every room for potentially incriminating documents...
...wore sunglasses and looked ashen. He spoke slowly. "Standing here before you is one of the greatest thrills I've had," he said. He promised the Sox would return to win a World Series, and the crowd roared again. Standing near Yaz, Darrell Johnson smoked a cigarette and looked very much like Gary Cooper...
...liberal Protestantism and pumps for devotion inspired by awe and terror ("Mop up spilt religion! Let us have it in its original stony jars or not at all!"). At the same time he pushes graphic, adulterous sex as suburbia's best anodyne; coupling is sweetest with the ashen taste of sin. He sees women chiefly as attractive hurdles in the heavenly sweepstakes, where all the runners are male...