Word: paled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...American League after an amazing and strange season in which the team--a reconstruction project peopled by retreads and castoffs from four countries--earned every bit of its glory. The Sox notched a league-best 99 victories and held first place from opening day. In the play-offs, the Pale Hose swatted the defending world champion Red Sox in three straight and went on to crush the musclebound Angels in five. That's the amazing part...
...with a photo of me that my mother has pasted over my dad’s picture. I wore this particular outfit for maybe six or seven Halloweens, beginning at age six. It was an impressive streak that went happily uninterrupted save a brief, ill-advised turn as a pale pink Care Bear.But when my relatives glance at this undoubtedly adorable photo today, they don’t smile and laugh. Instead, their lips purse, puzzlement sets in, and they begin to wonder: what happened to you? As it happens, I’ve been wondering a bit too.I...
...hassles of shutting out the day’s most intense sunlight so we can sleep until 2 p.m., we are reluctant to change our behavior. “College time” is such a potent force that it makes the transition between the East and West coasts pale in comparison. After all, three hours is only about how long it takes freshmen girls to play a single game of beer pong (which they shouldn’t even be playing anyway—shame on them).The only plausible explanations for our silly nocturnal behavior involve youthful rebellion...
...center “is kind of generic. This interior could be found in any speculative office park.” And, although the interior is far from being the bleak setting of “Office Space,” the brushed metal, opaque glass, and pale wood used throughout CGIS often recall the materials found in any Ikea catalog. The same problem reappears in the actual structure of the interior corridors and rooms. Inside and outside, the same shapes repeat themselves ad nauseam. “Between the [building’s] diagram and the details there...
...Kote. They are carrying a sack of flour, 20 packets of biscuits, three loaves of bread, three eggplants, one cabbage, some tea, a bag of sugar, a box of candles and a few loose cigarettes. They are the relief effort. "I buried 27 people yesterday," says Tawoos. He is pale with lack of sleep and bitterness, and has to take frequent rests. He tells us there are 317 dead in Kamal Kote, a village of perhaps 1,000. His head is spinning with it all. "My house is destroyed. 2 crore rupees! ($500,000). I used to come back...