Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golden Indian summer when Ed arrived. Rittenhouse Square, hemmed in by the old brownstone houses of an old aristocracy, was patterned with pale sunshine. The city was heavy with factory mists and factory stinks. But as much as anything else, smog and smells were evidences of Republican hardihood. On top of City Hall-above the chambers where a bland, bluff Republican machine had reigned with scarcely an interruption for 58 years-Father William Penn lifted a smog-smudged hand in benediction over the city whose wealth and power were created by high tariffs and Republican enterprise...
...possibilities of these questions occurred to Mr. Taft, who hadn't previously done much thinking along such lines, when the Chief of Police of Shirley dropped in and made tentative motions towards including the new settlement within his pale. Two jumps ahead of the law, Mr. Taft calculated the implications of a possible acceptance-- first police, then fire protection, but inevitably taxes. So, arguing that the Village was a government reservation, not subject to the town of Shirley or any other town, for that matter, he carried his point through three meetings with town officials. He came out knowing that...
This week, on the second anniversary of Wendell Willkie's death, workmen are landscaping the large lot in Rushville's wooded East Hill Cemetery. In the lot's center, a 15-foot granite cross rises over a tiny headstone; a pale pink granite bench faces an open, granite book. The stones, sculptured by Malvina Hoffman, are now wrapped in canvas. But when the wrappings come off, visitors may sit on the bench and ponder the book's message...
This was too much for Orley's son, pale-faced young Franklin Burham, who hated his stepmother. He denounced her and the marijuana ring to the police, from whom last week reporters pried the story. Rosa and Juan, arrested, confessed. Nelson got away. Police felt that they had found the drug's main source in Ecuador...
...have to look far to find the pale, undernourished look of an ex-occupant of the German concentration camp. Two Czech students bore with them the unmistakable back of the tubercular victim. In a country where 40% of the former members of concentration camps suffer from serious lung disease, they have only added their names to the waiting lists of the overcrowded sanitariums...