Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearded rabbis in frock coats and black hats stepped solemnly down King George Avenue to the pale gold building, crossed the pastel rose and green entrance hall and climbed the Galilee-marble staircase (or took the elevator) to the huge reception hall on the fifth floor. They mingled there with a crush of notables as international as Israel herself: robed prelates of the Greek Orthodox and Coptic Churches, Moslem and Druse dignitaries, and members of the diplomatic corps (who kept their hats on like their Israeli hosts). There were even some English ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf...
...Pale from fatigue and the lingering effects of flu, President Frondizi began ticking off his answers to the nation's pressing problems. The address, his first clear statement of position since the Feb. 23 election, added up to a moderate, vigorous program-a heartening swing away from the nationalist, leftist line that he used to gain key votes from the supporters of ousted Dictator Juan...
...Detroit isn't solving our problems-it's creating them," says San Francisco Social Worker Janet Pence, who recently retired her 1951 Hudson in favor of a pale blue Volkswagen. "When it became difficult to park downtown, we were greeted each year with a longer car. When the price of gas and oil went skyhigh, we were asked to buy gas guzzlers. Well, we plan to become a two-car family soon, just as Detroit advises. But we're getting another Volkswagen...
Mansley passed on, paring his fingernails, pale and withered in the bombast...
...Douglass, Adele recalls that she "thought it would be fun. I was cunning then-I was Alice in Wonderland." With her Scotty Wassie, she went to Kokoschka's Kensington studio twice a week for two months, dolled up in a Madame Jenny dress of blue velvet with a pale, pleated skirt. To her annoyance, Kokoschka never let her see the painting, and she skipped the last two sittings...