Word: pale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dead Cat. Pale from his long, recent illness (heart attack), Phil Murray plunged into his dilemma head first. He bitterly attacked the National Defense Mediation Board, from which he himself had resigned. He declared that A.F. of L. members of the Board, who had voted against a union-shop contract in the captive mines, were guilty of "the vilest kind of treachery," and demanded that the convention stand firmly behind John Lewis...
Cadmium paints (pale yellow to deep red): Prices, though protected by a Government ceiling...
...historical background of the day is religious, but the American people have come to observe it as a day of feasting and play." Novelist Fannie Hurst once put it more pungently: "As the American moves farther and farther away from the soil, the reality of Thanksgiving fades into a pale symbol buried beneath an elaborate ceremonial of gastronomies...
...Axis powers actually are fighting for the most elemental existence and the cares and burdens that must be laid on all our shoulders in this war would pale before the inferno that awaits us, should we lose...
What possible justification can there be for the admission of this pale, sickly, bespectacled, hollow-chested and thoroughly terrifying group into the proximity of the finest in virile young American manhood? Perhaps it may be suggested that we have books that they haven't. But carrying this principle to its logical conclusion, it will soon be discovered that the undergraduates of that place on Shepard Street need Widener books. And so, from one table they will expand to two, then to the whole alcove, finally, like Attila's hordes, they will engulf the entire reading room. This female group, untouched...