Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young, but her face was pale and pinched and she had a spot of grey hair as big as a saucer atop her head. Of her five small children two were burned to death when the Indonesians set fire to their evacuation truck during the street fighting at Surabaya last October. A third child was kidnapped and has not been heard of since. The mother was shot through the ankle...
Outside the pale of secret marriages is a more densely populated illicit area. In a single Dahlem block of 52 swank apartments occupied by U.S. officers, two-thirds of the tenants had German mistresses whom they supplied with coffee, cake and sandwiches from the Army mess-besides food received in packages from U.S. womenfolk...
...recorder of hate and love and death, sits in the pale California sunshine, chasing through the shadows of his own heart a quarry of monstrous guilt. A half-century ago, on a vacation, he crossed Lake Constance, and remembers that the Swiss shore seemed like a part of the great world, as his home was not. There was a taint (he thinks now) in that feeling; and in Lübeck, his home, more than a taint...
Last week Canada spent more than nickels in a hands-across-the-border "thank you." Through nine whoppingly successful victory loans, 50 Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders...
This week the Liberals capitulated. Still pale and weak, Premier De Gasperi announced a six-party Cabinet. The purge would continue under Socialist Vice Premier Pietro Nenni. As he and his ministers took their oaths in the Quirinal Palace, Alcide de Gasperi cried out in relief: "You wouldn't believe it, but now my cold is cured...