Word: paled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...celebrating King George III's 25th birthday, the Chippewas and Sacs in 1763 got together for some in tertribal bagataway - lacrosse,* in pale face language - outside Quebec's Fort Michilimackinac. Invited to watch the fun, the Fort's entire garrison gathered on the sidelines. Whereupon the braves dropped their bagataway sticks, grabbed their tomahawks, and staged one of the bloodiest massacres in Canadian history...
...today's avantgarde, notably Jean Genet (Our Lady of the Flowers) and William Burroughs (Naked Lunch). "The new immoralists" is what they are labeled by Partisan Review Editor William Phillips, who is anything but a literary reactionary. He adds: "To embrace what is assumed to be beyond the pale is taken as a sign of true sophistication. And this is not simply a change in sensibility; it amounts to a sensibility of chaos...
...Morbihan-echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale sunlight ignites the Montagnes Noires. But tucked away in the bleakness of Brittany is a village that doesn't quite fit. Gourin (pop. 3,000) is fat, smart and happy...
...incorporates black-and-white wartime film clips. Otherwise the prime-time rainbow will be unblemished. And off prime time, NBC will continue to colorcast the Johnny Carson Show and at least 18 daytime hours each week. When it all started in 1954, NBC managed to grind out only a pale 68 color hours for the year. For the 1965-66 schedule, that total will...
...youths at Catoctin Mountain are a pathetic lot. One is Robert Collier, 16, a pale, skinny boy from Big Stone Gap, Va., who had hardly got settled in camp when he had to have 14 teeth extracted. Asked when he had last been to a dentist, he replied: "I ain't never been." Another is Ray Martin, 18, who hails from "a holler" near Isom, Ky., where he lived with his widowed mother, six brothers and sisters. At six, Martin was gathering coal in an abandoned mine shaft to provide the family's fuel. At 16, he went...