Word: blanched
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...touch that now flows through all personal interrelations at the Center. In addition to aiding new arrivals by informing them on such matters as the perfect propriety of American girls who date without chaperons, the Meads also lend guidance on problems that might cause an experienced DP advisor to blanch...
...gave a wild cry and sank to the floor. When the sounding brass of Hollywood got around to viewing the foaming beer, they might well have done the same thing, for this scene and the rest of "Odd Man Out" is so consistently above California crop standards as to blanch the stoutest of the film empire. Even the Irish Republican Army would be shaken...
...solo practically indistinguishable from the whirring of the needle rubbing over the worn-out shellac. But the particular creature being described herein is not merely interested in identification, he is obsessed with it. He lies awake at nght thinking up harder and cleverer quizzes. Even the Chemistry Department would blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots of those falsely reassuring multiple choice questions and an ultra-involved point system which manages to cut away as much credit for every right answer as possible while counting all the wrong answers twice as much. The poor examinee...
...wasn't prepared for the clear white space which greeted her eyes when she turned the communication over. First throught was Irvin H. Blank, research fellow in Dermatology. Or maybe Carlos A. Blanco '49, or Dorothy J. Blanker at the School of Education, or Euan T. Blanch 1M. Finally she sent it to the Lampoon, one-time University funny magazine. "They've been drawing blanks for years," she said...
...forces in Warsaw (see above). Ordered by Churchill in August, the assignment fell to two British units and one Polish flight of the Balkan Air Force. Though they had had months of experience in dropping arms to partisans in enemy-held territory, this job made the airmen blanch. It meant flying 900 miles each way over hostile territory; part over Czechoslovakia, through some of the heaviest flak in Europe. Fighter cover was impossible and all the way back Nazi night fighters would lie in wait for them. Over Warsaw, they had to turn southwest to a certain bridge over...