Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years...
...reservoir is refrigerated at 4° C. (39° Fahrenheit), shipped to laboratories where the plasma is separated from the blood cells in a centrifuge, a whirling machine that works like a cream separator. A technique very recently developed dries the plasma like powdered milk for storage as a pale yellow powder; this powder is made available for quick transfusion by mixing with sterile, triple-distilled water. The doctors in charge of the program estimate that stores of dried plasma will not deteriorate for at least five years...
People with long memories smiled a pale smile at the thought of the good old days when a favorite winter indoor sport was beefing over the annual deficit, when a couple of spent billions was a shocker. One of the fixtures each January had been the annual calculations of how much more the President had spent during the New Deal than most of the other Presidents put together. Now the budget had gone far beyond even a grim joke...
...reports from correspondents all over the U.S. It probably came to the tongues of many men in its strongest meaning-one of moral censure rather than race prejudice-for "yellow" has long been the word for cowardice and treachery. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
...ageless, grotesquely ugly face at the prow of a beautiful head. . . . Eyes pale with intensity seemed more like hieroglyphics of intelligence than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...