Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worthy though they may prove, they inevitably pale by comparison with what Joseph Stalin...
...most devout followers can't deny that his tunes get repetitions. By itself the score of "Holiday Inn" is certainly above the average run of Tin Pan Alley drivel. But when you have already heard his output for the past twenty years--and who hasn't?--the score seems pale and derivative...
...people could add Mike Moran's seven words to the small and oft-repeated catalogue of their heroes' laconic battle phrases. They were better words, perhaps, than John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," better, certainly, than Commodore George Dewey's pale and measured, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." They mirrored the tempo of 1942's savage fighting, they caught the spirit of a confident U.S.: the bigger they are the harder they fall...
...spice and vigor might have pulled so trite a story out of the doldrums, but the author has failed to do anything more than produce a pale imitation of what Broun was driving at. And the leisurely pace of the direction doesn't help much either...
Caparisoned in a tank-corps beret, ensconced in a tank, the avenging Montgomery rode on deep and dangerous tours of the battlefield, his pale blue eyes and his thin beak of a nose turned west, farther west. Methodically, ruthlessly, he followed up the bloody, broken trail of the Afrika Korps...