Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...flush crossed his cheek, pale lips drew thin...
...breast of Junnosuke Inouye. The fellow in the tattered kimono was quickly arrested. His name was Sei Konuma, 22, and he came from the country. With sirens screaming, police whisked Mr. Inouye to the Imperial University Hospital where in a few minutes he died. At the hospital his wife, pale and dry-eyed, said...
...every correspondent in Tokyo knows, the present Government of fox-bearded Premier ("Old Fox") Inukai is heavily dependent on Japan's various supernationalistic secret societies. It did not, take the police long to discover that Mr. Inouye's pale little assassin was a member of a society known as the Seisanto which in turn is an offshoot of the formidable Kosuikai or Black Dragon Society, closely allied to the War Party of Premier Inukai...
...most striking picture of the show is "Le Chapeau a la Rose" by Jules Pascin. With its pale green background, its delicate brown and rose colors, set against the oak panels of the common room, one cannot help but wish it could be permanently placed there...