Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt listened, pale but dry-eyed, beside her son, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, her daughter Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger.* But many near her could not control themselves. Harry Hopkins, who had hurried East from the Mayo Clinic, stood almost fainting beside his chair, white as death and racked by sobs...
...Rayburn had just poured the Vice President a drink of bourbon and tap water when there was a call from the White House. Steve Early was on the wire. As he listened, Harry Truman's face turned pale. He left abruptly, saying not a word. But his sudden action spoke loudly enough. Every man in that room knew that Franklin Roosevelt's health had been swiftly declining. Said Sam Rayburn before the Vice President got to the door: "We'll all stand by you, Harry...
...breakneck race of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse across convulsed and shattered Europe, the one on the pale horse has come up to run neck & neck with Famine. His name is Pestilence...
Island of Thought. Overriding every G.I. discovery was the phenomenon of the people: they had no conception of the degree to which they had been thrust beyond the pale of the human race. Under Nazi rule, Germany had become an island of thought completely segregated from the outside world...
Leopold Stokowski, pale-maned maestro, since 1937 the great & good friend of Greta Garbo, was reported making nightly long-distance calls to Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who just inherited $4,500,000. "Friends" said that she would join him in Mexico as soon as her Reno decree comes through. Gloria and the maestro maintained a Garbo-like silence...