Word: paled
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...loons of the north country will begin to change color. All summer they have been got up gorgeously, like pool-hall hustlers. The back, a tessellation of white speckles on a canvas of black, will turn gray-brown. The jet-black head and bill will go dull gray, pale white. The neckbands−brilliant, symmetrical hash marks−will disappear. And so will the loons. Put a telescope on the beaches of North Carolina, or Florida, aim it out to the three-mile marker, near the sea lanes, and there the loons will be, riding the water...
...Reagan noted near the end of his speech, "Four years ago we raised a banner of bold colors-no pale pastels." Certainly there was nothing muted about what the President, or his party colleagues and their platform, had to say last week. As the ardent cheering for Reagan's acceptance speech swelled, even the balloons behaved. Red ones fell from nets on the ceiling, white ones rose from the floor...
...watched the spectacle, I rejoiced that I am not the one responsible for organizing the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Anything T could do would pale in comparison with Los Angeles' magnificent show...
...whole world to read. (You and your instructions that everything should be burned. Hah!)" The old man is not content simply to refute the younger Kafka's charges. He turns self-defense into the art of attack: "And you sitting there at meals always with a pale, miserable, glum face, not a word to say for yourself, picking at your food...You haven't forgotten that I used to hold up the newspaper so as not to have to see that. You bear a grudge. You've told everybody. But you don't think about what...
...want desperately to talk to someone who isn't teething, and the woeful results when they try to generate conversation with those lumps, their husbands, by asking, " 'What kind of a day did you have dear?' One husband reportedly answered by kicking the dog, another went pale and couldn't find words, another bit his necktie in half...