Word: ashenness
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...weeks had passed since Robert Vogeler stepped tense and ashen-faced from an airliner at New York's Idlewild airport, after 17 months in Hungarian Communist prisons. One day last week, the marks of his ordeal still etched in his face and voice, Vogeler stood before Washington's National Press Club, and for the first time told the full story of his imprisonment and torture...
...Fireman Crane's confession began to go off. In tones of hurried, hoarse outrage, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri gave Water Commissioner James J. Moran 24 hours to resign the $15,000-a-year lifetime job which Bill O'Dwyer had given him last summer. Next day, face ashen, hands shaking, Moran let a clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance: "With a stomach which can no longer digest the hypocrisies of the so-called...
Warm Ashes. If the abstractionists were mostly dry, the more traditional painters were soggy. Even the much-admired ones often succeeded by mere competence. Henry Koerner's blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith...
...YORK, N. Y., Oct. 26--Federal authorities today clapped Rumin Coak onto Ellis Island, claiming that the ashen-faced CRIMSON near could not enter the United States under the McCarran anti-subversives...
Foster (H) defeated Quain, 3-0; Nawn (H)defeated Quain, 3-0; Bacon (H) defeated Measures, 3-2; Geodall defeated Flagg (H), 3-2; Hoar (H) defeated Peirce, 3-2; Harding (H) defeated Ashen, 3-2; Digby defeated Richardson (H), 3-2; Brodour defeated Hunt...