Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Truth v. Truth. V. M. Molotov ("The Hammer") was pale and vexed. He had obviously figured all along that the Western Powers would not let the London conference fail. Many times Molotov had walked figuratively, and once actually, to the conference door. The other delegates had refused to give in and call him back. Until the very last he had always come back, and to the last futile hour he had seemed to expect that they would yield. Now he told the world the "truth" (according to the U.S.S.R.): Russia, in objecting to the participation of France and China...
Wormwood. The prisoner was so pale that his face scar gleamed red, but he showed no other sign of emotion. Leaving the dock, he smiled and waved at his brother Edwin, a British civil servant. Edwin waved back. To bystanders the two gestures looked like Fascist salutes. But when William had been led away, Edwin knelt on the courtroom floor and made the sign of the cross...
...Government's dampening answer to the "demob" cry came from pale-eyed, mild-mannered Minister of Labor George Isaacs. The Government, he said, would stick to a modified version of the plan drafted by his potent predecessor, Ernest Bevin, six months ago: 1,110,000 men would be released this year, "specialist workers" could go at once. The rest would have to wait...
...Then, pale as death, Quisling himself launched into a two-day plea for his life. He did not deny any of the state's major charges, but he claimed to have saved Norway from becoming a battlefield. He even boasted of his sentimental friendship with Hitler. With evangelical fervor he called himself a prophet and a patriot. His last feeble shout: "If my activity has been treason, then in God's name I hope that for the sake of Norway many of her sons will become the same kind of traitor...
Swarthy William George Helis, who since 1943 has spent more than anyone else on horses, watched some of the money come back last week. From the stands at Belmont Park, he could not spot his pale blue & white colors across the infield, but he would have no truck with field glasses; as usual, he relied on the announcer. After the announcer spotted Helis' Greek Warrior in front, down the stretch, across the line to win the Legion Handicap and $6,050, Helis muttered: "That guy's a good announcer...