Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While thousands on thousands of soft-handed, pale-necked civilians are beginning to learn the facts of animal and vegetable life, the great burden will still be borne by the professional farmers and poultrymen...
...found out and took him to the church, talking about her atheism on the way. In the run-down structure Graebner saw that its worshipers were "mostly elderly women with pale, deeply lined faces partly covered with grey shawls. . . . Every few seconds they gave the sign of the cross or touched their foreheads to the floor. Most of them seemed much happier afterwards...
Back from the South Pacific for a month's rest was Lieut. Commander Henry ("Robert") Montgomery Jr., malaria convalescent, slightly pale and 22 Ib. lighter than when he left Hollywood. He had been with his wife and two children only five days in two years...
When he arrived at Port Moresby on his 44th birthday last July, Ken Walker was a sight. In contrast to the bronzed, grimy pilots of his new command, breezy little General Walker was pale from his months in the Army War Plans Division at Washington. His huge sunglasses made him look like a long-nosed owl. Like most airmen in the Pacific, he wore shorts but, like no one the airmen had ever seen, he also wore leather riding boots...
Chicago Tax Shark. Star of the performance was Quiz Kid Kupperman of Chicago, a pale, sturdy, brown-eyed six-year-old who spoke somewhat juicily, thanks to a natural lisp and the recent shedding of three teeth. He had no trouble figuring the normal tax on $2,650 without pencil or paper. He also volunteered the belief that the United Nations were sure to win the war because he had so many friends and relatives...