Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racy automobile. It came equipped with an electric starter, electric windshield wipers and a virtually foolproof heater. It also reversed the Ford policy of "the choice of any color as long as it was black." It came in colors whose names would make today's automotive palette seem pale indeed-Moleskin Brown, Andalusite Blue, Cigarette Cream, Mulberry Maroon, Chicle Drab. The job of the restorer is to return the car as close to factory condition as possible. Many of the cars are rescued from the junk heap; others are bought from philistines who have put in engines from other...
...development schedule, and a $552 million price tag have all earned NASA's liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket such derisive nicknames as "the Hangar Queen" and "the Edsel of the Missile Industry." But as it separated from its Atlas booster and ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, the 48-ft. Centaur shoved a dum my Surveyor into a perfect flight toward a preselected...
...antagonistic cultures: the Indo-Aryan (primarily Hindi-speaking) in the north, the Dravidian (speaking mainly Telugu and Tamil) in the south. Its peoples range from sultry Sikhs in silken turbans to naked Nagas armed with crossbows; from country dwellers who are seared black by a cruel sun to pale and perfumed maharanees who ride to the beaches of Bombay in air-conditioned Rolls-Royces...
From Memory. Though a silent, pale, frail-looking man, Rostropovich is the iron man of the concert circuit. Periodically, like a compulsive mountain climber, he seems compelled to tackle great chunks of the cello repertory simply because it is there. In eleven concerts in Moscow last winter, he accomplished the unparalleled feat of playing 41 different works, virtually the entire repertory for cello and orchestra, all from memory...
...other influences on Kazantzakis' thought pale before the figure of Alexis Zorba, and Kazantzakis' final judgment of life coincides with his: "Greetings, man, you little two-legged plucked cock! It's really true (don't listen to what others say): if you don't crow in the morning, the sun does not come...