Word: paled
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...Willie took the knife out of his jeans. You disgust me, said Adele. Willie tied her wrists to the top bars of the iron bed and lifted her skirt. He felt faint. He glanced at the watch the teacher gave him. Right on time, Willie split Adele's pale belly open from the navel through the vulva. Whoo whooo whoooo...
looks preshrunk, forlorn, anonymous, an obsequious undertaker in a tight black suit-except that dark eyes of mourning seem to have been burned into his head with a blowtorch. He is pale, wary, jumpy, an urban night monkey traveling in the jungle of cities from Paris to New York. The combo behind him breaks into a jazz beat, and he punctuates the air around him with staccato jabs of his hand mike. Nervously he whips the mike cord, and it coils and undulates like a black snake. At the end of it, his slight body stiffens in a convulsive spasm...
...elevators were too slow, and cooking fumes from an adjoining galley were overpowering), a 20-room complex of classrooms and labs on the third floor had been remodeled. Under Lady Bird's direction, Lyndon's bedsitting room had been decked out with wood paneling, pale green curtains and carpeting. His favorite rocking chair was there, with color photos of his family, autographed pictures of his five predecessors in office, and four paintings of the Southwest. Near the President's bed were a battery of phones, including a direct line to the White House, and a three-screen...
...Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Observers had wondered whether Onkel Ludwig's earnest, professorial platform style might not bore the voters. As it turned out, they seemed to lap it up. On election night, 60 teen-agers dropped around to serenade him by the light of torches and a pale quarter-moon. The tune was his campaign song...
...also virtually without the kind of intensity of character that would have made audiences care whether anybody got back to civilization. Except Miss Mimieux. She is so pretty and so puzzled by the whole misadventure, and her pale, pale hair is so nicely combed. As Captain Gilbert Roland declares: "She is the only life in the desert within us. She must not be destroyed...