Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pale, peaked schoolgirl in the Serbian market town of Bagrdan, Ljubinka Milosavljevic, according to one of her teachers, "never particularly distinguished herself in anything." But the necessities of war and the peculiar demands of Communist ideology brought out unsuspected talents in this rural railroad switchman's daughter. By 1941, at the age of 24, mousy little Ljubinka had become one of the chief organizers of Communist partisan resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the law of the land, Ljubinka's gifts carried her to loftier and loftier posts...
...cool veranda, with its silvery curtains and pale green furnishings, is always a quiet and tranquil place. There is a soft, slurring sound of slippered feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap, black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk...
...ankle over to the Stardust Ballroom to see what's around. "Hey, there's a nice-lookin' short one f'ya," Angie says. Marty asks her for a dance. She says she doesn't feel like it just now, thank you. Marty turns away pale: that's enough of that for one night...
...swept the Pendergast machine out of the City Hall in 1940, has been busily reforming Kansas City ever since. But in his winning (by a 2-to-1 vote) effort, H. Roe Bartle also had the endorsement of the Pendergast organization, now led by James Pendergast, the nephew and pale shadow of old Tom-who did not favor Boy Scout leaders for public office...
...Milliet were gentler. He found Milliet a restless model, complained in one letter that "if he would only pose better, he would please me very much and we would have a much better portrait than the one I am doing now. The subject is good, with his flat, pale face and his red cap against an emerald-green background...