Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment, it appeared that the heroic effort would fail. The leg went pale and lost its pulse. Dr. Gathright cut right back into the artery and removed a clot. Then an assistant pumped in an anticoagulant. There were no more clots...
This dominance of central theme should perhaps have been muted. Wright himself should perhaps have been muted, in that his power as an artist makes lesser artists pale. Though Modigliani and Miro may stand up in the Guggenheim Museum, though Leonardo would appear well there, products of lesser painters might be at greater advantage elsewhere...
...aged wicker chair on a crumpled cushion. He is small and compact (5 ft. 7 in., 154 Ibs.), with a high-domed face that is benign yet cragged. Thinning strands of greying hair stretch errantly across his head. From beneath brows that jut at least an inch beyond pale blue eyes, he stares intensely at a small plaster shape held in his left hand. The right hand, thick-wristed and broad, with straight fingers that are surgically muscular, holds a small scalpel. In a few minutes, the chunk of thumb-shaped plaster takes on form...
Breaking into Prison. Life in Ecuador for Nate Saint, his trained-nurse wife Marjorie, and their three children was a story of emergencies and hardships that would pale the most jazzed-up TV script. Nate wrote of hairbreadth landings on narrow jungle airstrips that were "like parking a car at 70 miles an hour." Nate's "parish" covered a growing number of Protestant mission stations in eastern Ecuador. "It is our task," he wrote, "to lift these missionaries up to where five minutes in a plane equals 24 hours on foot . . . It's a matter of gaining precious...
...black, leather driving outfit, snuggled his face into an oxygen mask, and climbed into a seat that slanted back like a chaise longue. A station wagon pushed Challenger I until her four engines caught at 80 m.p.h. Mile markers whipped past like rungs in a picket fence as the pale blue, aluminum-bodied car made a pass up and down the range at an average speed of 330.513 m.p.h.-64 m.p.h. faster than the American record he set last year...