Word: paled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faction last year. Although still a hard-fisted Unionist, he has recently made discreet approaches to Northern republicans and now enjoys a vogue among Dublin editorialists. Still, the idea of independence, with its implication of British troop withdrawal, gets a frosty reception in London. "Not on." says Whitelaw, his pale blue eyes glinting. Without British troops in Ulster, he observes, "there'd be a holocaust...
These holdings pale beside his other operations. His parent company, Kokusai Kogyo (International Enterprises), was started in Tokyo in 1947 with a fleet of dilapidated charcoal-burning buses, and now embraces 38 subsidiaries, including ski areas and bowling alleys, restaurants, taxi and bus companies, and trading houses that import everything from American cars to golf clubs. Last year the company earned $26 million on revenues of $330 million. Osano is also the biggest private shareholder in Japan Air Lines, the state-operated flag carrier, and a major investor in All Nippon Airways, the domestic carrier...
Victoria: even today the name conjures up a glacial and portly figure swathed in black mourning, the aged face set in its pale exophthalmic stare of hauteur as she proceeds (for monarchs do not walk) across some shaven lawn at Balmoral. She is a living monument, testy, imperious, not amused. When the old die we remember them as old, and so it has been with Queen Victoria...
Photographers are forever going about striking their cameras into the faces of perfectly innocent people. Any exposed to such treatment has a right to fell aggressed upon, for few things are more intimidating than the pale yellow eye of a wide-angle lens examining one's flaws from three feet off. Yet, where would the world be without Photographers, these compulsive image-makers? The editors of the Harvars Bulletin on the whole approve of Photographers. Who communicate the best they can without benefit of the truly noble written word...
Last week, pale and weary from meeting unfamiliar daily deadlines, he sat in his London hotel room in soft-blue pajamas and struck back at the skeptics. At the same time, he struck out at the London Daily Express. He insisted that he had conclusive proof of Bormann's whereabouts and could have had more if the Express had not "blown the whole damn thing." Farago complained that the Express, afraid it was about to be scooped by a Bormann story in the London Daily Mail, had rushed into print before he was ready. (Express Editor Ian McColl replied...