Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor arrived at the Faculty Club at 6:05 p.m. in a pale blue Plymouth with a two-motorcycle police escort. About 15 curious Harvard students were there to see him or snap pictures. The first thing Romney did after stepping out of the car was to walk over to the two motorcycle policemen and thank them for "a fine...
...least of Hitler's crimes is the literature he is responsible for-notably the never-ending novels that make pale fiction out of the Nazi madness...
NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. Though his performance as critic is generally excellent, Field contributes mainly an engrossing review of Nabokov's entire career-in Russian and English-and finds the roots of such masterpieces as Lolita and Pale Fire...
...every race lives through a cycle of supporting evidence for at least part of it and carries some in his hand throughout life. Babies of all races are lighter than adults, presumably reflecting nature's provision for early vitamin D needs. And people of all races have pale, unpigmented palms and soles. Since these parts have extra keratin and are not exposed to ultraviolet, they need no melanin protection against excess vitamin D synthesis...
...Virgin and her presentation in the temple, which until the 1930s hung in the Barberini Palace in Rome. Then one was acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan, the other by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Now they are back together again, offering a double portion of the pale palette, polished perspective and high-waisted principessas painted by the anonymous 15th century artist known only as "the Master of the Barberini Panels...