Word: ashenness
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...laughs derive from wryly incongruous lines in the accent and style made familiar to America by Ealing Studios. In the present case, Henry first stuns Philip with the news that Susan has been keeping open house in her bedroom for the past six years, then says to the ashen cuckold in clipped syllables, "I hope you're not upset, old boy." Now, there obviously can be only so much of that particular type of nonsense at any one sitting, but it's fun for a while...
Premier Malenkov's announcement that Russia has the hydrogen bomb was aimed at the U.S., and as a verbal bombshell it was something of a dud. In Washington there was none of the ashen-faced confusion that followed the discovery, in 1949, that the Russians had exploded an atomic bomb. President Eisenhower heard the news and an hour later took off for Denver and vacation without comment...
Telephone Approval. Ellis Slack, ashen and restless, sat listening in the congressional committee room while Committee Counsel Robert Collier read from Judge Moore's deposition. One day last October, said the judge, he bumped into U.S. Attorney Watson, "who was then showing unmistakable signs of ill health, which resulted in his death two months later." Watson was anxious to tell him that Ellis Slack, on one of his visits to St. Louis, had ordered the "whitewash" grand jury report. Watson's story: the report was written in Watson's office and, before the grand jury presented...
...thrifty townsfolk are quick to keep pace with the changing season. Even as the first buds peep from the ashen skin of the lofty Ginkgoes, so too do hints of color invade the once-barren display cases of the tiny shops and marts. Bright-hued apparel and shiny trinklets bedeck the shelves and counters. A holocaust impends, but all is yet serene waiting, waiting...
...Lattre shuttled over the front in a small plane, with a display of energy that left aides ashen-faced with fatigue. Everywhere he touched dormant chords of national pride and restored to his soldiers the will to fight...