Word: paled
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...something of an omen. There on trial for murder stood straight-haired, sloe-eyed Denise Labbe, 30, and her lover, Jacques Algarron, 26. Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter of a poor postman, orphaned at 13 and self-educated, Denise had been a capable, serious-minded government secretary. Jacques, an illegitimate child whose parents had married only as an afterthought...
However, these are great stories. The language, like that of the peasants and fishermen of Aran, is rich and clear as poteen, and like that deceptively pale drink, should be taken in short shots, with a thoughtful pause between...
...last six months Cincinnati doctors have tried the treatment on seven other pale and puffy infants with the same good results, and now doctors in California are duplicating the work. The one feature common to all the cases is that the children were fed mostly milk; though all had vitamins, some also had a few vegetables, and a few had a little meat. Just why they are deficient in iron and copper is not clear; neither is it known whether they will have to continue taking extra iron and copper rations all their lives...
...Enemy? When Khrushchev finally subsided, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell rose to reply. He was pale and his voice trembled with indignation. Nobody expected such a mendacious and false account of history to be given on such an occasion as this, he said, but added bitingly that he saw no need to start a controversy, since all authoritative historians on earth, "with the exception of Mr. Khrushchev and his colleagues," were of a different opinion...
...udder burn. The Aberdeen Angus, still growing in popularity, is first-rate under ideal conditions. But it has a reputation for being hard to handle. The hump-backed Brahman, immune to India's heat and insects, is undeniably tough, but so is its meat. A few massive, pale brown Charollaise have been imported from France via Mexico. But since 1937 they have been barred by foot-and-mouth disease laws, and the U.S. herd numbers only...