Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watchtowers gleamed in the night. "Seen thus," wrote British Traveler Fitzroy Maclean in Escape to Adventure-an account of his journeys in 1938 to forbidden parts of the U.S.S.R. -"Bukhara seemed an enchanted city, with its pinnacles and domes and crumbling ramparts white and dazzling in the pale light of the moon...
...rained on the wedding day, but, as every sentimental newsman reported, the instant Steven and pale but happy Anne-Marie were joined in marriage, the sun began to shine. Bride and groom came to the church steps for another round of news pictures. When Governor Rockefeller was asked by photographers to kiss the bride, he answered, "This is Anne-Marie's and Steve's day, not mine," and stepped back into the church. Pastor Olav Gautestad spread his benison even over the unflagging newsmen and photographers. It was encouraging, he said, that in this day, when "most youths...
...comes whooping and whipping out of the starting gate, a pale-faced kid who fights for the lead right at the start so that no challenger will spoil his view of the pot of gold waiting at the finish line. His body high and forward, weight over the horse's withers, boots in two of the shortest stirrups in racing, he is a jockey in a hurry. He is strong enough to ride all afternoon, and he applies the measure of cold cash, not sentiment, to his work. Shrugs Jockey Bob Ussery (rhymes with fussery): "If I ride...
...cosmic terms, humans may be uncomfortably like those pale, soft-bodied insects that live under stones and dare not venture into the open. For it is becoming increasingly apparent that man is not going to be able to venture beyond the shelter of the earth's protecting atmosphere unless he develops massive, mechanical shells to protect his vulnerable body from the searing hazards of outer space...
...were busy pushing their strategic frontiers closer to the North Pole. At Churchill and Frobisher Bay, three hours' jet flight from the Pole, growling bulldozers lengthened runways to accommodate the Strategic Air Command's jet tankers. At remote island outposts, stevedoring crews labored through the pale summer nights to put ashore the year's supply of food, fuel and spare parts for DEW line bases, airfields and weather stations, while skippers checked anxiously for the latest ice reports from the straits to the north...