Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashlight beam swung around the room onto the pale faces. No one was crying out. No one was fainting...
...taste for details, they did hatch and execute on the spot two plans-a draft of war aims to put before the world and an invitation to Stalin to confer on Russia's war needs. What else they planned in the course of the leisurely conferences may pale into insignificance beside another thing that they accomplished: a meeting of minds...
Jubilo. It had been a good year. "The good land lay beneath the sun. And the mules with sleek sides . . . slid the flashing plows through the good land and laid it wide for planting. . . . The owners of the pale green striped fields pushed their feet deep into the pulverized ground. . . . Best stand we've had since Nineteen Twenty. We'll make a whopper of a crop this year...
...strides ponderously up & down the big, dark-paneled office, his wide feet sinking heavily in the taupe broadloom carpet. John Llewellyn Lewis is thinking. Now his pale thick hands are clasped behind him; now they jam in great fists in his coat pockets. Deep in his heavy chops he grips a cigar the size of an auto's gearshift, and like a gearshift the cigar slides slickly from point to point along the wide mouth. A mountain in a white suit, rumpled, tired, his whitening bale of hair shaking as he walks, the 61-year-old labor leader strolls...
...drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...