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...novel about the Depression-era Dust Bowl, John Steinbeck captured the idling, hallucinatory rhythm of drought: "The brown lines on the corn leaves widened and moved in on the central ribs. The weeds frayed and edged back toward their roots. The air was thin and the sky more pale; and every day the earth paled...
...like the grin of the Cheshire Cat--the cat's gone and only the grin is still here," says Anthony G. Oettinger '51, a member of the Committee on Non-Departmental Instruction. "It's a pale shadow compared to the heyday under [then-president James B. Conant...
...unwilling even to imply that NATO's might stood behind the diplomat's efforts. "At least move some equipment around," said an official from Bildt's office, arguing that just a meeting between the diplomat and high NATO officials last week was enough to exact conciliatory talk from the Pale leadership...
...offered to resign if the Coast Guard would halt its probe, but on March 10, he was turned down. Three days later, Blanchard met with Vice Admiral Arthur Henn, the Coast Guard's No. 2 officer, to ask for time off. "His face was drawn and a little pale," Henn said. "He was mortified that he had caused such potential embarrassment to the Coast Guard and his family...
...blond giant wears blue business suits these days at his political headquarters in downtown Belgrade, but his pale eyes are hard as polished stones. Seselj shows no remorse as he shunts aside direct accusations. "I am personally very sure I was not involved in any war crime," he says. "I provided volunteers. I made excursions to the front to boost morale. Those are not crimes." He waves away suggestions that he is responsible for fomenting the conflict. "Rhetoric is hardly enough to start a war." If there were Serb war crimes, he says, "scavengers" and "looters" among "criminal paramilitaries...