Word: paled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defendants, sitting beside two social workers, listen with pale and expressionless faces. Both come from broken homes, with parents reported to have alcohol problems. While Boy B's parents have both been in court, sometimes crying as the grisly murder was described, neither A's mother nor his father has attended the trial. Boy A has kept his composure for the most part, but his companion has sobbed and clutched at the social worker beside him. James' father, Ralph Bulger, listens intently, occasionally closing his eyes...
Those legislative difficulties could pale in comparison to the ones Clinton may face after the 1994 elections. Losses of even two or three seats in the Senate and 20 or so in the House, regarded as normal for the President's party at midterm, would shave the Democrats' margins so thin as to perhaps bring back legislative gridlock. Greater losses could virtually end Clinton's chances for getting any important legislation passed, and the elections last week indicate that is a distinct possibility. Very far from a certainty, of course: a recent quickening in the economic recovery, if it continues...
...conspirator on the other side, or simply psyching me out? Five minutes later, she was sitting exactly where she had been before. And where she had been before, and was now, was not the dark, frightening room of seances and sinister doings I had imagined, but an airy, pale blue front porch. The sun was streaming in, and icons of the Virgin Mary and praying hands decorated the otherwise sparse walls...
Technical writers use TeX for another important reason: it's great for composing mathematical equations. Most commercial DTP products pale next to TeX when it comes to printing out, say, a Fast Fourier Transform equation in a way appealing to most readers...
Americans, obsessed today with the image of a soldier's pale body dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, will find the power struggle in Russia a bigger worry in the long run. After the U.S. is out of Somalia, Yeltsin's foes will still be everywhere in Russia. The atavistic forces may have lost last week, but they will reorganize and wait for another opportunity...