Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ball in Washington's most sedate, tasteful and elegant hotel: The May-flower. Along the gently curving balconies of the ballroom, party employees draped slender streamers of bunting dotted with tiny LBJ-HHH stickers. At each end of the room hung modestly sized portraits of the ticket mates, both pale and humorless...
...sold the exceptional total of 110,000 copies, and has won the highbrow Renaudot Prize. It has intense visual strength and might easily be transcribed into a New Wave movie by some current master of the jolting, hand-held camera. Yet it lacks human warmth, and ends as another pale variation of the modish French anti-novel-truly a tale of tedium...
...Pale Blue Filler. Up in the broadcast booth, he was indeed some rambler, take it from Berra. He could not resist telling TV fans in his cornpone drawl every last detail of what they could see for themselves. Moreover, with a journalist's eye for firsts and a statistician's mania for the minutiae of baseball, he was fond of confiding to his listeners that, say, the bunt that had just been witnessed was the first ever laid down by a left-handed rightfielder in an August night game with two men on base...
...window of Walker's study ?just at the moment that Walker lowered his head to take a closer look at a book he was reading. The bullet missed. Said Marina to the Warren Commission: "When he came back, I asked him what had happened. He was very pale. He only told me he had shot at General Walker." Moreover, in Oswald's effects after the Kennedy assassination, officials found a map of Walker's neighborhood and three photographs?two showing the rear of Walker's home, the other an entrance to his driveway from a back alley...
...Past and passé do-goodies such as Eleanor, Chester and Soapy pale before the chubby-cheeked dynamo that is Horatio. Mr. and Mrs. Citizen must be taught in no uncertain terms that this Fabian gab-bag, one uncertain heartbeat from the White House, is the farthest out since F.D.R. tabbed Henry Wallace...