Word: paled
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...lightheaded as they are lighthearted. Because the castle is in such an appalling state of disrepair and lacks central heating, Ermyntrude has to haunt it in a muffler. But the other characters pay little attention to her. "A nice little thing," observes one of them, "but rather pale." Castle in the Air is a nice little thing, too, and anything but pale...
...retainers, wise in the ways of Washington. If she abandons her lifelong zeal for running a house and never voices a command,, the house will run well. But if she wants to order every meal, redecorate any or all of 35 upstairs rooms (her favorite colors: rose and pale green), shift Lincoln's famed 7-ft. bed, or plant geraniums in the bathtubs, she has every right...
...less regal than that of President Tyler's second wife, "the Rose of Long Island," who received on a dais, wearing a crownlike headdress of bugles: Mamie's glittering, wide-skirted inaugural gown, designed by Nettie Rosenstein and purchased from Texas' Neiman-Marcus, is of pale rose poult-de-soie, bespangled by 2,000 rhinestones in varying shades of pink. Mrs. Eisenhower's junior partners as official Washington hostesses are the wives of Cabinet officers. Mrs. John Foster Dulles has been ill-but most of the other ladies were trying on gowns for the inaugural ball...
...Alaska visit in 1946 gave Wilber the material for two of his best scripts, A Long Night in Forty Mile and Two Pale Horsemen. Alaska also gave him a touch of gold fever. He does not think of TV writing as a lifework. What he wants to do is make enough money to head back to the Klondike in style. He says, mysteriously: "I know of a lost vein on a ridge between the Chitanana and the Cosna Rivers. I'm going to go back there...
...same weapons, and obeying the same commander; but before a corps can be organized or a single German armed, the treaties have to be ratified by the parliaments of six countries. France and Germany, with old antagonisms rankling, are stalling. What happens if EDC is not ratified? European statesmen pale at the question, give answers like that of Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: "By economy of thought I refuse to examine the alternatives." Last week a man who has done more than most to delay the European Army gave his alternative...