Word: paled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test his resolution in those areas of the world where American and Soviet interests clash. The risk of an error in assessment of the new President's will, or lack of it, could have disastrous results, and bring you troubles that make today's sorry situation pale in comparison...
Another frequent accusation is that Western scholarship tends to scrutinize Arabs as if they were some primitive tribe, and ignores their view of their own culture. Mahmud A. Ghul, a visiting Palestinian professor at Harvard, says, "Western scholarship still treats the whole of Islamic civilization as a pale shadow of Western Christian thought. This is the academic version of the missionary or colonialist approach...
...special prosecutor said at the outset he would not ask for the death penalty. "We believe these men are guilty of willful and brutal genocide," he told the court. "The blood of one and one-half miilion Vietnamese stains their hands. But to execute them would only be a pale imitation of their own crimes. We only want them locked up to protect the rest of the world...
Most Cambodian farmers have never heard of Elliot Richardson. Their world view most likely extends no farther than the particular region of Cambodia in which they live. The occasional trip to Phnom Penh to market rice is like entering a different universe, beyond the pale of comprehension. Cambodians know nothing of the intricacies of American politics--their only contact with this country occurs when its bombers whine overhead...
...look in the mirror and it's open and inside the place where the eyes were is a long road grey as water and on it someone is running away a little figure in a long pale coat and you can't move you can't call it's too late for that...