Word: ashenness
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...lyrical first stanza, in which Shade as a boy gazes at reflections in a window, is one of the best: I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected...
...clubhouse in a golf cart, then drove him home. In the front hall, Kennedy spoke briefly to Jackie Kennedy and to Caroline before retiring to his bedroom. He left behind him a stern injunction: "Don't call any doctors." But the family, worried by his ashen appearance, ignored the order. After the doctor arrived, Joe Kennedy, still wearing a sports shirt and golf shorts, was taken from bed and driven in a private ambulance with motorcycle escort to St. Mary's Hospital, where the chaplain gave him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church...
...effort was not put out here," said a top New York Republican who is no friend of Rockefeller's. "Nelson will have one helluva time getting re-elected Governor in 1962." The Rockefeller rebuttal: he had given 400 enthusiastic speeches for Nixon, campaigned so hard that he turned ashen with fatigue. Nixon himself held no grudges, believed that Rocky had gone all the way for him-at least after the famous Treaty of Fifth Avenue and the nominating convention...
...uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most of them apparently unconnected with the plot, and uncovered tons of hidden arms...
...first anniversary, taut, tireless Premier Karim Kassem was man of the hour 24 hours a day, taking salutes at parades, laying cornerstones, playing host at enormous public receptions, receiving scores of delegations. Friday evening he orated steadily from 10 o'clock to 5 a.m. Finally on Sunday afternoon, ashen-faced with fatigue but crisp and erect as ever, Moslem Kassem strode into Baghdad's Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph...