Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily down the center aisle to his front-row seat. Acting Majority Leader William Knowland was there, briefing a cluster of reporters on the day's schedule, so Taft seated himself in Bill Langer's chair, beside Knowland, and propped his crutches against the desk. He looked pale and drawn, and his collar seemed too big. As an attendant shooed the press off the floor, Taft leaned over and began to whisper in Knowland...
...disheveled hair, grieving eyes and caged face. Not even a fumbling job of English-language dubbing can detract from her performance. Whether she is mourning the death of her dog, shouting obscenely at the islanders or tipsily singing a holiday song, she makes most other movie actresses look like pale blossoms indeed...
...young Brigadier General Mark Clark was his right) at the GHQ directors' group at Camp Polk. Gruenther became a lieutenant colonel during the maneuvers . . . Eisenhower says Gruenther is one of the best soldiers he has ever known-and so do dozens of other people. Gruenther is a thin, pale, frank officer who proves to be studious, well-informed and extremely well-liked . . . The knowing element in the Army is betting on the Eisenhower-Gruenther combination to swim to the top quickly...
...Bastardo Carborundum." Less than half an hour after his brief swearing-in ceremony, Wilson walked with assurance into his vast, flag-draped Pentagon office looking out over the Potomac River. Sitting down behind a walnut desk that once belonged to General "Black Jack" Pershing, he stared around at the pale blue walls and deep blue leather furniture selected by the first Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal. Behind his special, direct-line White House telephone, the man from Detroit propped a framed motto which read, "Nulle Bastardo Carborundum"-assembly-line Latin for "Don't let the bastards wear...
From Pankrac, Oatis was taken to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, and after breakfast with Ambassador George Wadsworth, was driven to the U.S. zone of Germany. To newsmen who met him at the border, Oatis, thin and pale, seemed bewildered. On his face was the look of utter confusion that imprisoned men often wear when first confronted with the outside world again. Newsman Oatis had been cut off so completely that he did not know Eisenhower was President, that Stalin was dead, that he himself had become a symbol for the free press of the West. When one reporter greeted...