Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marketplace of ideas. In arguing for this movement, the authors seem unaware that the real danger of excluding any area of thought from society, is the likelihood that conformity will be extended. Unconsciously, Buckley and Bozell reveal this threat, when they admit that extreme liberals may fall outside the pale of respectability. The most disquieting quote from their book catches the dangers of McCarthyism in dramatic form: "Someday the patience of America may at last be exhausted and we will strike out against the Liberals. Not because they are treacherous like Communists, but because, with James Burnham, we will conclude...
...Hotdogs," yelled a lady a few seats away. Hotdogs, a pale boy with two missing front teeth came lounging over. He looked at her unhappily. Every hotdog he sold was clearly a personal a front. The woman, however, paid no attention to his feeling and began ordering a string of hotdogs, and I began passing them along down...
...Pale-faced Clement Attlee was first on his feet. "Once there is a war in the modern age, in the last resort, any weapon will be used," he said. "There is no guarantee that in some country, at some time, there may not arise to power a fanatic who hated the human race or believed that all civilization might be destroyed." Equality of Annihilation. The old, familiar figure stumped up to the dispatch box. With a twinkle in his eye, Sir Winston threw in his well-assembled rebuttal. "I cannot feel that this is a day of tribulation," he said...
...This pale, chilly man is an odd fish in the Tory school-an intellectual in a party which prefers character to brains, a political philosopher in a party which habitually relies on dimly felt tradition, a remote ascetic in a party of sociable men. But Rab Butler, 51, is the Tory Party's brightest rising star. In his two years as Chancellor, he has done much to restore his country's pride and place. As party man, he has given his party new life, established himself as a coming Prime Minister...
Boring & Sound. The pale young man with the donnish air was no overnight success. His speeches-meticulously prepared, subtly reasoned, peppered with quiet wit-bored the House. But the ability to bore is rather well regarded in the House of Commons as a sign of soundness. Rab turned from oratory to committee and administrative work to prove his soundness. He was cautious, he was courteous, he never spoke out of turn, he never spoke unless well prepared. His voice was as clear as his logic. "The bullyboys may make the headlines," said a colleague, "but it is to the young...