Word: paled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This year's trendy color for burkas is a pale sky blue," reports TIME's Tim McGirk from Afghanistan. This week on TIME.com McGirk writes about Afghan women, their complicated relationship to their signature head-to-toe garment and how their lives are changing: time.com/mcgirk...
...banish the lingering Cambridge chill and to help pass the 30-minute wait for a table, we immediately hit up the bar for some exotic drinks. The friendly bartender happily directed us to the house specialties from the extensive drink menu, which heavily featured rum. We opted for a pale purple blended concoction coined “Jamaican Voodoo” and a less-flashy rum punch. Both were satisfyingly sweet...
...hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year's trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The fashion center for burqas -the Paris, if you will, of Afghanistan - is Herat. Afghan women rave about the delicacy of its embroidery, the exquisite pleating which gives the burqa a shimmering, watery feel but which takes hours to iron...
...three of us. Then we heard some shooting nearby, and it seemed to be approaching in our direction. One of the waiters peeped out into the street and said something in Pashto to his manager. I could not pick it up, but the faces of Sardar and Mohibullah turned pale. I asked what happened. "Nothing," they said...
...second single from Invincible, is an R. Kelly number that sounds like a rehash of 1986’s “Man in the Mirror.” Unlike the stirring original, this pale imitation is as rousing as a cup of warm milk. By the song’s end, the listener may want to take the advice of the track’s title...