Word: paled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arising pale but well from his bed of flu, Franklin Roosevelt last week headed south for his first vacation since Thanksgiving. His favorite cruiser Houston awaited him off Key West to take him out to the navy's game of defending the Panama Canal (TIME, Feb. 20). The Presidential fishing rods were already on the Houston. Lest citizens suppose he was a frivolous President, Mr. Roosevelt packed into his last two days ashore several statements calculated to keep the country thinking well...
...daily constitutional in the Vatican gardens, for leg pains, which often accompany hardening of the arteries, so crippled him that he was able to walk only a few steps at a time. He could not climb stairs, had to be carried from one audience chamber to another. Shrunken and pale, with hollow cheeks, he stuck to his job until last summer when he suffered a severe attack of the cardiac asthma which had troubled him two years before...
...Lawrence proclaimed the need for killing off individual "schemers of all kinds" instead of indiscriminate killing in war. When Merrild asked whom he would kill first, Lawrence said Mabel Dodge. Merrild asked if he would shoot her or strangle her. "No," said Lawrence growing pale, "I will cut her throat...
...melt, then dragged downward until they disappeared into a trail of water. Fleece piled up into triangles in the corners of the windowsill, slowly creeping up over the edges of the bottom panes, rounding off the window's squareness. There they hung, shining glazier's points, with their pale faces flattened against the panes, peering in at the light on the table and the warm fire beyond...
...pregnant - a quiet, pale girl dressed in a calico wrapper, a sunbonnet and part of an old army uniform. He gets her into the boat, pushes off. From this point on it is the convict against the Mississippi-he trying to get the boat and the woman back to the guards, the Mississippi plunging him through thickets, over cotton fields, up past Vicksburg and down past Baton Rouge, past dead cows, bobbing outhouses; and leaving him the exhausted, hungry, indignant victim of nature on the loose...