Word: paled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spirit of scrutiny—as evidenced by its decision to recommend divestment from PetroChina—and trust the Corporation, and the HMC, to police themselves. Lines have to be drawn. Ultimately, the benefits of ridding Harvard of a few more million dollars of questionable stock pale in comparison to the importance of the health of Harvard’s investments. Harvard has set a strong precedent for divesting from exceptionally bad companies. More student interference at this point will likely do more harm than good...
...midnight, long past bedtime for most children. But in a poor, war-ravaged neighborhood of Kabul, more than 300 men are gathered at a wedding party to listen to the singing of Mirwais Najrabi, a pale, chestnut-haired 13-year-old. He performs in an open courtyard, under the night sky, to an audience that has endured so much suffering and grief over years of oppression, war and mayhem. Yet for this brief, transcendent moment, their burden is lifted by the exquisite purity of the boy's voice...
Presiding over this inferno is the creepily complacent Cupid, played by John Kelly with mesmerizing deliberateness. Far from the cherubic toddler of Valentine’s Day, this pale, stealthy god takes malevolent pleasure in characters’ seduction and subsequent destruction...
...probably the most gruesome, explicit drama on broadcast TV--and it is the single most popular. Did all those people tune in by accident? When the greatest plurality of viewers choose to watch a show they know to be graphic, can that show be beyond the pale? Or does COMPLAINANT simply not like where the pale is nowadays...
...little of one's children. The six men who've shown up at the community center this sweltering February evening are a diverse bunch in manner and circumstance, but they're bonded - forever, they say - by this common ache. Dressed all in black, Nick looks pale and tired; the light behind his eyes has gone out. Divorced for eight years, he is entitled to see his 11-year-old daughter every second weekend, but says his ex-wife has devised tactics to block even that paltry contact. He says his blood pressure has soared and he's right...