Word: blanches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLANCH RENFROW Lubbock, Texas...
Whenever they hear that he is heading their way, U.S. diplomats overseas blanch with dismay. For Ellender has a habit of saying what he thinks-and what he says does not often contribute to international amity. While visiting Korea in 1956, for example, Ellender announced that the South Koreans, then considered good U.S. allies, were nothing better than "bloodsuckers." He found the public market in Mogadishu, Somalia "untidy," but nothing as compared with the "filth" of those in Addis Ababa. He noted that in Nepal "the streets were filled with people. Apparently the citizens do not work very much...
When he reads reports of such television advances as ultra high frequency and improved color telecasts, the average U.S. householder is less likely to glow with enthusiasm than he is to blanch at the prospect of buying a costlier new set. Not so in Britain, where more and more fans now rent their TV sets. Of the 12 million television sets operating in Britain, half are rented. Of new sets installed, 80% are now rented, compared with 10% a dozen years...
Just when Kennedy was trying to calm the business community,* Solicitor General Archibald Cox betook himself back to Harvard for a speech calculated to make any businessman blanch with dismay. His message: a way must be found to bring Government into wage-and-price-making decisions on a regular basis and at ''a fairly early stage" in the process. It may be enough for now that the Government "make known, widely and forcefully, the general policies that it thinks would advance the public interest." said Cox, but "there are a number of reasons for thinking that...
Observe the sky begin to blanch...