Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American friends: You all know the terrible destruction the enemy caused in Europe . . . . Our educational and public health services were purposely wrecked and the most pitiful victims are our children. They are so pale. It will take a long time to restore normal mills and fat supplies, to re-equip our hospitals and children's clinics...
Closeup, Young neither looks nor acts like a fighting man. He is quiet and soft-voiced, shows anger only by a slight tightening of his lips, a slight glint in his pale blue eyes. Only 5 ft. 6 and weighing only 135 Ibs., his body seems fragile. His thin shoulders are stooped. He looks more than his age: at 50, he could easily be taken for 65. His narrow face is florid and wrinkled, with the kind of puffiness that usually spells dissipation. "My dissipation," says Young, who doesn't smoke and only occasionally takes a cocktail...
Largest and most well-known organization of its kind in the country, the Mountaineering Club has been increasingly active since the end of the war, and future plans call for expeditions and training that will make previous jaunts pale by comparison, according to William L. Putnam '45, secretary of the Club's advisory council...
...Elena Ivanovna suddenly became timid. She turned pale and shrunk together as though she had been touched with something coarse, and walked away without saying another word...
After World War I, the pale horse of pestilence galloped unchecked across Europe. How many people died from influenza, typhus, relapsing fever, malaria, typhoid and smallpox was never recorded, but flu alone killed an estimated 16,000,000. After World War II, the pale horse and his rider never really got started. Health authorities think it was partly a matter of luck. But Europe's, and Asia's, amazing escape from pestilence was also partly due to UNRRA. The story of its great work was told last week in a final bulletin by its health division...