Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took a look. The mine was held by eight German civilians. Two were polite, worldly men from Berlin: 1) moonfaced Werner Vieck, a Reichsbank official; 2) pale, gaunt Dr. Paul Ortwin Rave, curator of the German state museums, assistant director of Berlin's National Gallery. They talked quite frankly about their secret, now that it was no longer secret. The mine, they said, held...
When the children saw Mrs. Jardine they were enthralled. She wore a pale blue gown with wide sleeves, decorated with blue, rose and violet flowers. Her white hair was fringed, puffed and curled. She wore rubies, turquoises, diamonds and emeralds on her withered hands. When she said, "I must kiss you, because I loved your grandmother," the children reflected that no one said such things in their family. When she told them that their father was the handsomest man she had ever seen, ten-year-old Rebecca asked guilelessly, "Do you wish you had married him instead...
There was the mood of the people, too. Although adequately dressed and seemingly well fed, they were pale from long days of living and working in cellars. When the fighting had passed, many expressed their relief in outbursts of uncontrollable laughter. But M.G.ers, watching the way little children shuddered at the noise of heavy bombers passing overhead, the way their parents listened to the heavy shells going over, knew that their next mood would be profound depression. Yet, somehow, M.G. had to work with and through them. It was not a happy prospect...
...both began showing signs of nervousness as the jury stayed out, hour after hour. And when the court finally read the verdict, Joe Fay and James Bove looked pale and sick. The verdict: guilty of extortion and conspiracy; maximum possible penalty: 18 years in prison...
...very pale and dirty marine lay on another table. A corpsman was adjusting the rubber tube carrying the whole blood to his arm. Dr. Silvis said: ""See his lips. He's washed up." Then he turned to the corpsman and said: "Let's give him another bottle and put it in the femoral [big vein in each groin]-the blood can run in faster than it can through...