Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked to the microphone he grinned, and the applause went up again. But he looked pale and nervous in the glare of the floodlights; when he began to speak his voice almost failed. He had worked on the speech for days, had reworked it the night before in his suite at the Dorchester, and had committed it to memory like a high-school valedictorian. For a few minutes he sounded like one. But as he went on, he got better, and the crowd began to realize that Ike was doing all right...
...pale, intense Pastor Niemoller who confronted newsmen last week was still "a good German." What he had to say for himself and for Germans as a people was therefore all the more revealing...
...sickening, inhuman record of Germany's prison camps, many Americans saw only one answer: the Nazis have put themselves beyond the pale of humanity. This week the Christian Century looked at Buchenwald and saw more than that...
...letters alone had poured in by midweek. Eleanor Roosevelt spent hours answering personal notes, hours more telephoning friends and relatives who were to receive mementos from her husband's possessions. Those who saw her thought her hair looked greyer; her eyes were tired and she was pale, but she worked on without pause. Toward the end of the week, she invited newspaperwomen to pay her a last visit at the White House...
Lionel Johnson. Oscar Wilde said that any morning at eleven o'clock you might see Lionel Johnson come out very drunk from the Café Royal, and hail the first passing perambulator. Santayana met this young poet at Oxford. Johnson looked 16, was small, pale, with small, sunken, blinking eyes, sensitive mouth, pale brown hair, and rebellious ideas. He kept a jug of whiskey on the table between two books-Leaves of Grass and Les Fleurs du Mai-and planned to become a Catholic as soon as he was of age. He became an Irish rebel instead. When Santayana...