Word: paled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subversive' organizations, so the supposed rationale for spying on it is not present. The chilling effect of domestic government surveillance, now prominent with the unravelling revelations in the Watergate 'caper,' hardly needs documentation. FBI interference in Harvard's affairs, confirmed in the case of Dean Whitlock's secretary, may pale into insignificance beside electronic eavesdropping in presidential campaigns, but it is no less excusable...
...Pale and unsmiling, the diminutive Mao-suited official walked into the grand banquet hall of Peking's Great Hall of the People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao...
...bear the same Basque imprint. It is an open face, quick to smile. "He is optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate, "has seen the Apocalypse...
...Children are encouraged to visit their father's place of business. There they interrupt proceedings with a ritual cry: "Only one cavity!" Children may also be seen in the early morning, when they ingest the seven essential vitamins every child needs for perfect health. Toward evening they grow pale and cough until a powerful potion brings speedy relief...
...quet as painless death. She kneels. Each morning upon rising she kneels where she can see the cross above her small bed, and the thin stream of sunlight through the ugly torn shade. These morning prayers are different from her prayers before retiring, the light is different. At night pale neon flickers into the room and illuminates the Ghost...