Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between two hills we came into full view of the enemy, who could now strike us with enfilading fire. Some soldiers drove into a narrow ditch to ascend the slope, but the Colonel strode straight up the hill. As we climbed everyone grew faint, turning pale and looking at each other in the naked frankness of misery...
Then a shore searchlight shot onto us, illuminating us like actors on a darkened stage. In the glare I saw the green, pale faces of the soldiers and then one of them growled: "Why don't they shoot out that goddam searchlight...
...boats had been seasick on the packed ships. Now, on the way to the flaming shore, they were sicker than ever. They held their heads in their hands. They moaned. They vomited. A shore light picked out one of the boats. The faces in the light were pale and green. One of the men growled: "Why don't they shoot out that goddam searchlight...
...fabulous array of world enterprises (TIME, June 29, 1942). Last week, on an hacienda outside Mexico City, Hermann Göring's onetime friend was busy with earthy new interests. He was experimenting with the breeding and raising of hogs, poultry, sheep and dairy cattle-still with a pale blue, acquisitive eye on postwar opportunities. True to Wenner-Gren tradition, he bought not one hacienda but a half dozen...
...step to take! The palette gleamed with beads of color; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air. My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. But after all the sky on this occasion was unquestionably blue, and a pale blue at that. It is a starting-point open to all. So very gingerly I mixed a little blue paint . . . and then with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean upon the affronted snow-white shield. It was a challenge . . . but so subdued, so halting, indeed...