Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image of Fate in the forest, a ghost-pale crone who sits like a Norn at her spinning wheel, spinning the thread of life and croaking prophecies that fly out of her tomb-dark throat like bats...
...Pale, better looking than Elvis Presley, he drinks nothing stronger than milk and could be a U.S. college freshman. And despite all his rock and riot, he has received critical praise that Elvis Presley would be unlikely to get even if he spent 200 years at the Yale School of Music. "In the domain of modern music," the music critic of the respected cultural weekly Arts has written, "Johnny Hallyday has raised several original points. He is probably the best abstract singer the world has ever known...
Died. Louis Charles Rabaut, 74, pro-labor Democratic Congressman from Michigan's 14th District (Greater Detroit), a stanch Roman Catholic whose shining achievement in 13 pale terms in the House was the 1954 legislation inserting the words "under God" into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance; of a heart attack; in Hamtramck, Mich...
...Prayers to Allah. At the airport, Johnson was pale and apprehensive. But as Bashir materialized like a genie in the plane's door, he soon let his host know that there was nothing to dread. Wearing a jaunty karakul cap, a trimly tailored frock coat and a 500-watt smile, the camel driver accepted the onslaught of press and public with the nonchalance of a Mogul prince. Nervously, Johnson apologized for the chilly weather. Replied Bashir: "It is not the cold; it is the warmth of the people's hearts that matters." In response to L.B.J...
...fellow as anyone would want to meet-until, upon arising to speak, he became the "Prince of Fire-Eaters" who had made it his life's work to lead the South from the Union. Georgia's Alexander Stephens was a sickly 100-pounder, known as "The Little Pale Star," who saw the future with terrible clarity: "Mark me, when I repeat that in less than twelve months we shall be in the midst of a bloody war." Mississippi's Jefferson Davis, blind in one eye and haggard with headaches, was a moderate who could...