Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assassin, a lean, pale, 26-year-old Egyptian lawyer named Mahmud Issawi, submitted impassively to arrest. To the police he arrogantly proclaimed the pro-Naziism which had earned him long internment. He had been released last Autumn-by order of Maher Pasha...
...session to vote on the confirmation of Henry Wallace. Such a motion is not debatable. If passed, it meant that the Senate would certainly turn Henry Wallace down. This was the showdown. Did the anti-Wallacemen have the votes? To gather them all, they had persuaded Nevada's pale, ailing James Scrugham, 65, to leave Naval Hospital, had brought him to the chamber in a wheel chair...
...Hubbard and the other prisoners of Pangatian Camp waited as they had waited for months-ever since they had seen the first white-starred bombers over Luzon. They could only guess at what was happening now in the northwest,. where the sky on past nights had been lit with pale flashes of gunfire. Over a radio improvised from scraps and toothpaste tubes they had caught fragmentary reports. They knew that MacArthur-who would "always seem to see the vision of the grim, gaunt, and ghostly men"-must have returned. Inside their bamboo and barbed-wire stockade, they thought with mixed...
...Harry Hopkins' first evening in Italy were falling on sad, eternal Rome when he drove to the somber Palazzo Chigi. There, in a dun-walled room once used by Benito Mussolini and Count Ciano, President Roosevelt's sour-faced emissary had a chat with Italy's pale Foreign Minister, gap-toothed Alcide De Gaspari...
...students] lay closely packed together, covered, for warmth's sake, with their patched and ragged clothes, little could be distinguished but the sharp outlines of pale faces, over which the sombre light shed the same dull heavy colour...