Word: paled
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...heart, Karen hated men. Men should be strong, brave, austere; yet her crippled professor father had cringed before pain, screaming shrilly on his deathbed: "I won't die, I won't, I won't, I won't!" From that frightening experience, the pale English girl fashions her own neurotic design for loving-"to humiliate or be humiliated...
...hospital, the Shah, who looked pale and shaken, climbed into bed. His smartly dressed bride-who looked as though she had been crying all day-anxiously spent the night in the hospital. Next morning, the foreign scalpel flashed, and within two hours the Shahinshah was being wheeled down the corridor to his suite...
...handy with his fists. One of his friends later recalled that "he would fight anyone-morning, noon and night, his brothers among the rest." Nothing in the boy suggested the conceit of the prodigy, and when he began writing verse a few years later, he assumed none of the pale, bohemian attitudes of the precious poet...
...written of Thurber's "sure grasp of confusion." Nobody who ever heard Jim's mother tell a long, detailed, uproarious misadventure story would wonder where his sureness of grasp came from. There are oldtimers in Columbus who insist that Jim is but his mother's pale copy...
...nations on earth are less color-conscious than Brazil, none more so than the Union of South Africa. Last week, when the Brazilian navy training ship Almirante Saldanha docked in Cape Town harbor, a shipload of sailors and officers ranging in skin tone from pale copper to charcoal black streamed into the city, made havoc of Premier Daniel Malan's brutally enforced segregation policy...