Word: paled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pallid, with a pale mustache, short and chunky in build, he is talkative, friendly, and regards himself as a policy-carrier-out, rather than a policymaker...
...above the Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead-end of a one-way street, facing a hill that led to the main part of town, the President stood before the old Presbyterian manse. He looked pale and worn; his hands trembled. He began...
...Nazis chorused the German national anthem and the Horst Wessel Lied, 34,000 Swiss stood respectfully quiet. Then they broke-in French, German, Italian-into the Swiss Rufst du Mein Vaterland, which goes to the same tune as God Save the King. Here and there a tall, pale-eyed individual intoned the words of Britain's national anthem. Two Americans sang My Country 'Tis of Thee...
...cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction or directions Hitler will employ his military machine in the present year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this day was strangely halting; but his words were measured as he held his head up and said to his British colleagues: "He may at any time attempt the invasion of this island. That is an ordeal from which we shall not shrink...
...Thin and pale people walking listlessly in the streets . . . absolute lack of vitamins in the diet of the masses of the people." These words describing the German populace were spoken last week by thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...