Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pale face glistening in the floodlights, he mugged for cameramen with evident satisfaction, faced an audience of reporters that jammed the room to the walls. Behind him stood three aides, two of them chomping gum. Waggling his eyebrows, in sonorous, sneering, ironic tones he intoned his letter: "Sir, "Your letter at hand. . . ." Denying that the defense program would be impaired, reasserting the loyalty of his miners, Lewis said that if the President were going to restrain him, "then, sir, I submit that you should use the same power to restrain my adversary in this issue, who is an agent...
Said he, with curled, pale lip: "My indictment is only an incident in the perfidious plot to smother and smear all opposition to the arbitrary forces cunningly at work to destroy the America we know and love...
...before the junta could step in, another figure appeared. He was pale-faced, lame Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, one of the best friends the U.S. had in Arias' Cabinet. He took over the police in Arias' name, spoiling the junta's plans...
...flashiest in a decade, sat in the middling comfortable seats of flag-draped Carnegie Hall. The 104 orchestra men sat also. The main piece was Beethoven's "Grand Symphony"-whose fateful dot-dot-dot-dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th...
...pale, black-browed Harry Edwards plugged away. Firing political jobholders, he saved $45,507 in operating costs the first year. He laid 100,000 new crossties, rebuilt the locomotives, repaired the buildings, bought a new Diesel. Then he helped get the Hatteras Oil Co. to set up offices at Morehead City and start shipping its asphalt...