Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he is the author of the Labor Party's standard propaganda work, Practical Socialism for Britain, Author Strauss feels that labor does not trust him. She quotes a Labor M.P. who said of Dalton's "unusually pale eyes": "they have a habit of looking at you intently and conveying unfathomable depths of insincerity." Dalton is also "the most prominent smasher of independent movements in the Party. ... If he suppresses leaks in the blockade as rigorously as he has tried to exterminate all ... expression of minority opinion in the Labor movement, the blockade will be positive indeed...
...Harvard radicals planned to release white doves from beneath their gowns and walk out of the commencement. Inside the yard it was plain that they would do nothing of the sort. Harvard's capped-&-gowned seniors lined up respectfully to let a host of guests march past. Looking pale and cool in his black gown was Harvard's most distinguished guest: Lord Halifax...
...pale chalks, my palsled monkey, all my pretty nerves...
Young Joe Lee lives in a home on Beacon Hill that was built in 1797, but he has spent most of his life helping underprivileged kids in the slums around the Hill. He loves to sail and swim, so to get the pale-faced children in the sun he persuaded Boston authorities to open a public beach on the Charles River Esplanade, taught them to sail in $25 boats that he designed himself...
Robert Menzies is a conservative in a country that was New Dealish long before the New Deal, and where the labor movement is so tough that Australian-born Harry Bridges is just a pale expatriate compared to the sort they grow at home. Americans say that Menzies is like Wendell Willkie except that he won. A grocer's son and a prosperous lawyer before he went into politics, he was damned up & down under as the spokesman of the fiendish Interests, did not win labor's confidence until Australia's war production began to show results...