Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ominous Interview. Next day came news of a fourth Russian test, but that event seemed to pale alongside the implications of an extraordinary interview with Khrushchev by New York Timesman C. L. Sulzberger. The setting was peaceful-lemon soft drinks were on the table, Khrushchev politely pulled a ruffled yellow curtain to shade Sulzberger's eyes from the sun, cracked jokes that touched off "merry animation" among the Russians. But Sulzberger came away with the overwhelming impression that an overconfident Khrushchev still doubts that the U.S. and the West will fight to maintain freedom in Berlin or elsewhere...
...Wagner earned his win. Having turned against the bosses in order to ensure the support of the surging reform Democrats, Wagner managed to make bossism the campaign's big issue. Pale and drawn, his smile appearing as though it would fracture his face, Wagner campaigned tirelessly against such bosses as The Bronx's Charles Buckley, Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey-and, particularly, Tammany Hall's Carmine De Sapio. Returning to his Greenwich Village apartment late one night, De Sapio was asked by a neighbor: "How's it going?" Replied De Sapio wearily: "It would be going...
...Thin. pale, with long black hair and burning eyes screened by spectacles, Ben Khedda performed his first revolutionary act at the age of 14 by scrawling "Long live Algerian independence!'' on the wall of his Algerian school. His extreme nationalism carried him to leadership among the Moslem students at the University of Algiers, and he was twice jailed by the French, winning his release the second time through the intervention of French liberals who had worked with him in the Algiers Boy Scout movement...
Today Americans are denied the whoop-dedoo promotion of Barry's Tricopherous, or Kickapoo Indian Sagwa, or Wine of Cardui, or Madame Dean's French Female Pills, or Dr. Dye's Voltaic Belt, or even Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. But the television viewer, morosely staring at an armpit, or watching little hammers beat a brain, or listening to the simulated gurgling of a stomach, knows that the spirit of the medicine man is still around...
...Mexican life and decided to study them in depth. The book is told by the Sánchez family themselves in the uninhibited idiom of Mexico's lower depths, which for originality of thought and richness of filth makes American-slum or Skid Row language seem puritanical and pale. But along with the four-letter words are warm passages of glistening simplicity and flights of startling insight. As each Sánchez tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality, the squalor fades into a natural backdrop for the intense drama of five human beings...