Word: pale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is unlikely. The Prime Minister's austerity policies, and her determination not to compromise them even in the face of deep suffering in the work force, may be liabilities at the polls next month. But they pale in comparison with Foot's fail ure to control the left wing of his party and his unwillingness to step down in favor of the more popular and dynamic Healey. Wrote London Sunday Times Political Editor Hugo Young: "About Labor there is the stench of something close to death. The rot of self-doubt, even of self-ridicule...
...Sands's efforts pale in comparison to those of the team as a whole. The rest of the lineup also had to battle back from first- or second-set losses to take their matches. At Princeton's courts, with nearly 100 vocal fans, the team showed a toughness Fish finds commendable...
...circuit to more than 30 reporters, Evans was secured in the electric chair, known as "Yellow Mama," at the Holman prison near Atmore, Ala. Two guards pulled straps around his shaved head, attached electrodes to his scalp and leg, and left him rigid in the chair, looking small and pale...
...doing business with Hanoi. Washington also lobbies against United Nations development grants for the country and discourages other nations from offering aid. "Basically, Viet Nam has isolated itself by its actions," contended Secretary of State George Shultz during a Far Eastern swing last February. "Its behavior is outside the pale...
...fits and seizures while the hospital orderlies argue with a nurse over the incentives necessary to convince them to wheel away this ailing charge, who has had the audacity to collapse at the end of a shift. Anderson has a gift for such comically macabre scenes: while the pale old man flails about helplessly, the orderlies argue with the nurse over whether they will get a side order of bacon in their extra-incentive breakfast...