Word: pale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same weapons, and obeying the same commander; but before a corps can be organized or a single German armed, the treaties have to be ratified by the parliaments of six countries. France and Germany, with old antagonisms rankling, are stalling. What happens if EDC is not ratified? European statesmen pale at the question, give answers like that of Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: "By economy of thought I refuse to examine the alternatives." Last week a man who has done more than most to delay the European Army gave his alternative...
...approach . . . The impact of social and economic factors [must] be considered as much as the mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other hand, the disease modifies in a peculiar manner the emotional and intellectual climate of the societies that it attacks." Frail & Pale. Tuberculosis was so great a killer in the iyth century, that John Bunyan wrote of Mr. Badman: "The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave." But the great...
...during the refectory silence, the pale, fastidious young novice burst out: "Oh, what lovely legs!" He referred, as he later told his superior, to the legs of an insect approaching his soup plate, but the fathers took a dark view of the matter. After further exposure to Rolfe's eccentricities, the fathers expelled...
...narrow, pale, somewhat dead face, which is not. however, insensitive. Standing or sitting, he holds himself watchfully, easily erect, with great dignity, conscious of who he is. He is well educated, by the standards of his profession, and an avid reader...
...evening last January, in the pale green dining room of Ottawa's Rideau Hall, Winston Churchill sat at a banquet table, ruddy-faced in an atmosphere redolent of brandy and cigars. He was Prime Minister again, and enjoying it. Sitting near him were Lords Ismay, Cherwell and Alexander. Among the 40 guests, few noticed the tall, slim British general seated downtable. But suddenly Churchill waved a brandy glass at the officer and bellowed...