Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, Mr. Smith is the fellow in the brown suit. Middle-sized and homely, he has pale blue-grey eyes behind rimless glasses, and a mustache which (though he boasts "I haven't had a clean-shaven upper lip in 15 years") is invisible in a poor light. He is cautious with his talk, and likes to take several puffs at his straight-stemmed briar pipe before answering a question. His friends joke that "Harold has only one speed: low gear." He works hard at his job, including most evenings, and has very little time for fun. When...
With no Gallic kiss, but a handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united...
...these troubles pale before the greatest laundry difficulty: manpower. Even though 75% of laundry workers were always women, no laundry now knows from one day to the next how many employes will appear for work. Labor turn over has run as high as 500% a year; inefficient workers have halved the laundry's output per man-hour while doubling the number of customers' complaints. Even if laundries were allowed to raise wages they could not compete with the higher wages paid by war industry...
...Mexico City last week movie houses were packed by a wretched distortion of the life of Agustin Lara. Called Noches de Ronda ("Nights of Revelry"), it was a pale, sentimental story of a café musician's rise to radio fame. The face in the film was not the pinched, knife-scarred face of Lara, Mexico's most popular songwriter. The producers had taken one look at that and decided to give the role to the handsome singer Ramón Armengod. But what drew throngs to the box office was Lara's fantastic personal reputation...
...Finns expect only pale sympathy from the U.S. Last week Finnish sources confirmed Washington's statement that the U.S. Government had never offered to seek separate peace terms from Russia on the Finns' behalf...