Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swings into the room like a parody of herself. Her favorite attire is a pale blue silk negligee which sets off the inhumanly blonde brilliance of her hair. She founders into a straight-backed chair as if it were a chaise longue. The maid brings ice, two glasses, a Haig & Haig pinchbottle. The second glass is pure courtesy; Mae West neither drinks nor smokes. But she talks likably and rather shyly...
Returning to Washington after 26,000 miles to & from Moscow, he stepped out of the Douglas Skymaster to hear cheers such as he has never had in his ten years as Secretary of State. As pale and reserved as ever, apparently unmoved, he walked straight to the big, black Presidential limousine. Said he: "This is an un anticipated honor, Mr. President." Said Franklin Roosevelt: 'We'll give you the keys to the city." More & more nosegays fell at the feet of old Mr. Hull. Winston Churchill termed him a gallant eagle; Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden called...
...Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse-voiced women dumped their garbage from windows, chased their dirty children through the narrow streets. It was one of the great cities of the world. Its citizens had a proverb: "Vedi Napoli e poi Muori." ("See Naples...
They were Negro and white troops. Advance contingent was a regiment of engineers who had built Army bases in Canada. Their camps were exotic-clusters of bamboo bashas (huts) surrounded by giant hardwoods, wild growths of pale orchids, glistening green jungles. But incessant rains drenched them. Roving Jap patrols sniped at them. They were enervated by the heat, plagued by hordes of mosquitoes and bloodthirsty leeches that suck a man white if he drops from wounds or exhaustion...
Newspapers hopped gleefully into the controversy when they got another newsbreak: the resignation of one of CBS's most publicized newscasters. He was pale, frail, combustible Cecil Brown, 36, the honest but emotional reporter who survived the Repulse sinking and won radio's Peabody award for his warcasting (TIME, April...