Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morton also reported that "every single vehicle was American made, including jeeps, amphibious 'ducks,' command cars, trucks, and even a pale blue Ford sedan covered with a camouflage...
...took notes calmly, feeling little emotion. It was all so cold and bare. I wrote: "There are four chambers fed with these small, innocent, pale blue Zyklon crystals which give off cyanide when exposed to air. Two extra chambers for plain carbon monoxide. Maximum simultaneous capacity: 2,000." Kudriavtsev was still explaining: "On one day, Nov. 3, 1943, they annihilated 18,000 people?Poles, Jews, political prisoners and war prisoners...
...Paris' liberation. It had rained all day while the French tanks maneuvered in the mud and fought their way through the strong points and Tiger tanks which still kept them out of the capital. Late in the afternoon the clouds blew away and the sun shone through a pale blue sky. The tall lovely bending trees that lined the roads and fields stood dark against the sunset. Then the sun went down and a quarter moon hung low above the plain...
...city's well-worn victory guns boomed, and antiaircraft women on the roofs fired colored rockets. Against the wet sky, still pale with dusk, the fireworks made a poor show. The people wondered why this celebration had started so early. In the first week of the offensive, Citizen Stalin had issued the unprecedented number of three proclamations in one day. Was that number to be surpassed tonight...
Nearly all wounded men brought to field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...