Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imbued with a desire to be a "small, pale crusader" against greed and selfishness, she landed a job in 1934 with the crusading NRA, soon bossed it in New York. To settle labor disputes, the biggest part of her job, she developed a technique of mowing down disputants with a machine-gun delivery of tough, sensible talk, backed up with hair-trigger thinking and many a trick learned in Tammany politics. Sample: while temporarily serving as assistant WPA director for New York, she was hemmed in in her office one day by a "lie-down" strike of dissatisfied employes...
...back of my closet, and I'm just itching for an excuse to use them. What are we waiting for, start those presses rolling, start those footballs floating through the crisp autumn air. "Get the boys out of the labs by Thanksgiving!" And what we'll do to these pale blue touch-football players is nobody's business...
...degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred and pocked by huge, overhanging boulders and ledges. In the morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions...
...Nolan was a pale-faced, bucktoothed youngster of 23 when he scudded into Eire's Civil Service on a foam of brilliant answers to such questions as "How far is the earth from the moon?" Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, he had lived until then without notable incident save a visit to Germany...
...ballot. No Pope had been chosen so quickly since 1623. Pacelli was the first Papal Secretary of State to become Pope since 1775. He was elected on his 63rd birthday. Said one Cardinal, who watched Pacelli while the votes were being counted : "I have never seen anyone look so pale and yet continue breathing...