Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years the doomful sound of drumming in the Congo night struck white men weak with fright. Black tribesmen, pounding out an ominous drum language of their own, threatened death to pale interlopers...
Early symptoms are a tired feeling, loss of weight, rapid breathing, fast heart action, vague pains in the joints, commonly called "growing pains." The child becomes pale, except for flushed cheekbones-the "rheumatic look." He sometimes develops a typical rash, and his joints may become red, swollen...
...schools were opened over the protests of Dover's school-board chairman, Captain F. R. Powell, who demanded that the Government force the youngsters out of town. Said he: "Children are living in caves and getting as pale and miserable as possible. ... If a shell from German Channel guns falls into one of our schools and kills or injures any of the children, the parents themselves will be to blame...
...Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull in Technicolor walked off with Zanuck's show, leaving his own star, downy Tyrone Power, a poor third.) The Works. After a year of being jounced around in free-lance Westerns (says she: "Those are the days I'd just...
...this time Byron was 30, looked 40. His face was pale, bloated, sallow. "The knuckles of his hands were lost in fat. . . . With his long, greying curls, his rings and brooches, the outmoded clothes he wore, he suggested ... an expatriate of dubious propensities but distinguished origins. . . ." He also suggested Proust's Baron de Charlus...