Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive to preserve the Aryan race, Adolf Hitler did not stop with the extermination of the Jews. In 1940, Hitler appointed Dr. Werner Heyde, a pale, bespectacled SS major and former Wiirzburg University Medicine lecturer, supervisor of "Operation Mercy Killing." Until courageous protests from German church leaders forced the Nazis to curtail the program in 1941, Heyde and a staff of "selectors" in his euthanasia task force killed more than 100,000 mental defectives, including many who were only senile or epileptic...
Though he does not think himself a prophet, Graham can sound like Jonah addressing the men of Ninevah: "We're approaching a crisis that will make Cuba look pale, and you only have to read the papers to see it. The explosive points around the world are increasing rapidly; it seems as if the whole world is catching fire...
...Rembrandt can be seen and Mel ville can be read; but Marlowe or Moliere are pale shadows in paperback. They must be performed on the stage to come alive, and the commercial theaters are not going to underwrite such performances. Only professional repertory companies, through constant revivals, can preserve the history of the drama in a meaningful form. Similarly, when the art of theater is to be advanced, only a company that is not hooped to commerce can try something new and almost certainly unpopular without fear of financial ruin. By and large, the American theater ignored the obvious need...
...never was very robust, and now, at 64, he is growing noticeably pale and frail. But tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Showman Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone...
...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...