Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government concluded that it could not wait for remedies until the April budget. Pale and worried, Chancellor Harold Macmillan rose in Commons one day last week and announced his new measures. The day before, he had raised the bank rate (equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve discount rate, now at 2½%) to 5½% - highest since the depression days of 1932-in a move to tighten the supply of borrowable money. Now he jumped on the British consumer, who has been enthusiastically snatching up goods on the "never-never" (British slang for the installment plan). The minimum...
Personality & Family: Short and stocky, he is 68 but looks younger, has greying blond hair and pale blue eyes behind heavy spectacles, is a lively conversationalist and good orator, with the fine Tuscan accent that is highly respected in Italy. To give his children a normal family life, he has declined to move into the sumptuous Quirinal Palace, instead lives modestly in a four-room apartment in Rome with his second wife (his first wife died before the war) and their two children (aged 12 and 11), often walks to work. His hobby: model trains, which take up half...
...tribune, others charged across the Chamber floor at the Poujadist benches. In seconds the floor was a melee of pushing, shouting, punching Deputies. Stools flew overhead, Deputies tore lids off desks to use as weapons. Suddenly, three shots rang out. There in the second-tier gallery was a pale, gaunt young man, waving a nickel-plated pistol and shouting, "Vive Poujade!" The combatants froze into startled silence as spectators grappled with him. A woman screamed and fainted with a clatter among the gallery chairs...
First day on the set, Bill was pale with fright-and exhaustion. What with violin and boxing lessons, he was working 17 hours a day. To calm his fears he called his mother as many as five times a day, and to conceal them he began to give veteran Mamoulian a little friendly guidance on how the show should be done. He almost got fired. Suddenly he had a two-day nervous collapse. Barbara Stanwyck, the star, came to his rescue. Every night, no matter how hard the day's work, she gave him a private rehearsal...
...swings as soon as she sees the White Hunter she calls Bill Buncher: "A powerful red-faced man with very pale blue eyes, slightly bloodshot from staring out over the vast open spaces he inhabited professionally, he bowed and sank into a chair. He went down massively, like a wounded elephant." Tiny is staggered by his fee-$1,800, which includes native servants, gear, a car and a truck. But since it is an anniversary present, her husband insists on their having a "luxury" safari...