Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from top to bottom for mines. On the crowded courtroom benches the red tarbooshes bobbed up & down. The whispers of the perfumed mascaraed women rose to an excited buzz. Then the two handcuffed prisoners were ushered in-short, stocky, red-faced Eliahu Bet Tsouri, his arms defiantly akimbo; tall, pale, black-mustached Eliahu Hakim, his slender fingers tightly twisted round the iron-spiked bars of the dock...
Still silent, the four Greeks sat down at the table and one by one added their signatures. Hollow-cheeked John Zevgos, Communist Minister of Agriculture in the Papandreou cabinet, signed first; then Demetrios Partsalidis, pale, white-headed Secretary-General of the EAM, Major Theodore Macridis, black-bearded operations officer of the ELAS general staff, and Major Athanasios Athenellis...
...Bolster'd with down, amid a thousand wants, Pale Dropsy rears his bloated form, and pants; "Quench me, ye cool pellucid rills," he cries, Wets his parched tongue and rolls his hollow eyes...
Harg, in this novel by Vardis Fisher, was one of several hundred squat, hairy, apelike men roaming the part of Europe that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...
Some of the defendants, long since bored with jeering and demonstrating in court, took court-approved vacations to engage in more exciting business. As the trial dragged on, Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn-who opened the proceedings with a Nazi salute and once appeared in court in a pale blue satin nightdress-was teaching a night class in stenography. Lawrence ("The Brain") Dennis, top intellectual of U.S. fascism, spent his mornings browsing sedately in the Library of Congress. Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling was touring the Midwest, singing anti-Semitic and anti-rationing songs to America-First rallies...