Word: paled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support of existing programs and the establishment of new ones, the Foundation could make a significant contribution to the aesthetic and intellectual life of the University". Other "woulds" and "coulds" and "in some sense"'s beckon Black involvement. The aesthetic and intellectual life of this University is much too pale without our vibrancy...
Arriving in Plains, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter walked through a chill drizzle as some 3,500 Georgians shouted a welcome. Pale and tired, the two nevertheless smiled happily. Carter clambered atop a flatbed truck and announced that every one of the 52 was alive, was well, and was free. Amid cheers and tears, Carter wiped away a few of his own, before declaring: "They are hostages no more, they are prisoners no more, and they are coming back to this land we all love...
...anything can happen at a Beanpot. That ranks up with Watergate and Santa Claus as widespread misinformation. Things will be just as usual. Harvard won't have any more effective defensemen tonight than it did during all of January. Rick Meagher and Mike Eruzione won't blaze onto the pale blue ice, one last game of college eligibility magically remaining, and lead the Terriers to victory. Jackie Parker won't mellow...
...Chayefsky's failings pale in comparison with those of Russell, who has become the high-brow equivalent of Peter Bogdanovich, a professional--yet always employed--failure. In his last effort, he heaped so much simpleminded Significance on top of Tommy that he destroyed a quality score. With States, he takes an already overwrought script and ladles enough technical mumbo-jumbo onto it to make the film almost unwatchable at times...
Jackson's $500,000-plus a year pale in comparison with Winfield's estimated $1.3 million annual stipend. Included in the deal is a $1 million signing bonus, as well as complicated provisions tying extra compensation to the inflation rate and the price of Yankees tickets...