Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City. Near the river the streets are still black, except when bombs land. In that moment the outline of the buildings is silhouetted against the sky and reminds one of a fortress. Indeed Stalingrad is a fortress. Underground we enter the staff headquarters. Telegraph girls, their faces pale from sleepless nights and explosion dust, tap out dots and dashes. Communication officers pass with quick steps. In their dispatches they do not write about the hills, valleys or heights, but about suburbs, streets and sometimes even single buildings. I try to light a match, but it is quickly smothered. Here underground...
...attack the Japanese air and sea raiders. Enemy bombs bracketed our encampment and a few were killed and several injured. The Marines, cursing "Tojo" tumbled from their bedrolls to their foxholes and then back to bed again. The moon broke hazily through the scudding clouds and made splotches of pale light beneath the palm and ironwood trees. It was a typical night on Guadalcanal...
...especially liked the ducky little names for his creations. We have in our wardrobe a gay little number which we affectionately call "Four-Thirty a.m." Pale grey-green in color, it has a cap to match with a tricky brim which can be worn in a number of ways. The brim has stitching which goes around and around and around. What a great delight it would be to have Adrian model it for us some...
...other), in both cases he got the job after other generals had been recalled, possibly too late. His own motto is: "Attack, attack and reattack, even when you are on the defensive." His politeness is unfailing, but staff officers confronting him for the first time remark his pale blue eyes with unwavering, pinpoint pupils, his clipped mustache and his clipped, machine-gun orders; they regard him as a somewhat dashing but thoroughly competent commander. His chief aide in the field as the battle joined was Lieut. General Bernard Law Montgomery, 54-year-old Ulsterman, who is merciless, almost brutal...
Fellow delegates escorted her to Washington: Sniper Vladimir Ptchelintzev, 23, credited with killing 152 Germans in 154 shots; pale, studious-looking Nikolai Krasavchenko, 26, in charge of keeping Moscow supplied with fuel...