Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blister rust symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
...precious Dutch delicacies are missing; almost all the cheese is being exported to get foreign exchange. Food is still too scarce to make up for the starvation years. In the last agonizing months under the Nazis, Dutchmen ate only 400 calories a day; they are still unwontedly thin and pale...
...Safety. We arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...
Silent Tom. Many a millionaire has ransomed his kingdom for a race horse, and ended up with a big oat bill. The difference, in Millionaire Elizabeth Arden Graham's case, is that Tom Smith spent her gold and brought home silver cups. Tom Smith is a shortish, pale and poker-faced old codger nearing 70, who is less of a chatterbox than Calvin Coolidge. His silences awed the lady. He spends a lot of time just staring at his horses through wise eyes, and when he is through, a horse knows he has been cross-examined...
...Johnson expect to sell his ideas to conservative management? Johnson's answer: "I don't know. If ten years of depression and six of war economy have not taught our American management this lesson, I think it is beyond the pale and I am afraid they cannot be educated. I am afraid the job is going to be done by militant labor. It seems...