Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists last week admitted that one war is being lost-this year the 58 U.S. varieties of termites, frail, pale, ¼-inch-long insects, will destroy some $50,000,000 worth of property (by boring into and eating the wooden framework of buildings), and almost nothing can stop them...
...rubber-from 27,000,000 now (v. 20,886.000 in 1932) to 23,700,000 at year's end, to 9,000.000 at the end of 1943 and to none by 1945. If that dire prediction comes true, whatever the civilian may suffer in loss of convenience will pale beside the terrific consequences to the war effort itself...
...milling half-millions of pre-war years, or even the 50,000 who went last year, the 10,000 who succeeded in getting to the Heath last week were a cozy little standful. Women, crowding around the Royal Enclosure, had a chance to gawk at the Queen's pale lavender costume, with hat and shoes to match. In the paddock, folks got a good look at the King, noted his more than usual good humor. For the first time in the history of British horse racing, the Royal Stables were on the verge of winning all four of England...
...with soot, and padlocked him in a box which was opened only when he was fed. Ibrahim escaped, only to be hunted with hounds and imprisoned again in a smaller box. Finally three concubines told the police about Ibrahim. The found him in his box, "looking like a ghost, pale as death, and smelling like a polecat...
Kansas Boy. Harold Dewey (born in 1898) Smith is stocky, sandy-haired, has pale blue eyes behind trim hectagonal spectacles, a mustache so colorless that it seldom shows in photographs. He grew up on a Kansas wheat farm, worked his way through the University of Kansas by building houses. He thought of teaching in China but became an expert on municipal government instead, wound up as Michigan's Budget Director under Governor Frank Murphy...