Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First International was founded in London in 1864 under the aegis of Karl Marx, lasted ten years, disintegrated through lack of centralization. The Second International (Labor & Socialist) started in 1889. It went to pieces during the War, was resuscitated in 1923. Pale pink, and hated by Communists, it still exists but with small prestige. Famed oldtime members: Ramsay MacDonald; onetime Burgomaster Seitz of Vienna; Friedrich Ebert, first President of Germany. The lusty Komintern or Third International was founded by Nikolai Lenin in 1919, controls and directs Communist activities in 46 countries, despises Internationals Two and Four...
...three-quarters of an hour uprights and braces were screwed together, the pulley strung, platform, trip lever and block slipped into place. A bale of fresh dry straw was ripped open, a zinc-lined wicker casket was unloaded, and Mme Guillotine raised high her thin red arms in the pale Provençal light...
...accepted the resignation of Penate's brother Rodolfo as Secretary of Labor and persuaded Secretary-Without-Portfolio Carlos Saladrigas, who had also sent in his resignation, to take the dead Penate's job. Then he called his cabinet into two all-day sessions from which he emerged, pale but triumphant, with three of the smartest moves his government has made thus...
...Vera Cruz hospital next day, reporters found bandaged M. Bourguin pale but cheerful...
...customary jocular vein, the President looked over his conference of newshawks, told them that they looked pale and tired and needed a rest and therefore he was going to order them to take five or six days' vacation in Florida sunshine. Thus he playfully conveyed the information that he himself had decided to take a rest in Florida the end of March...