Word: paled
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...Pale, plain, 30-year-old Ralph Kastner did not have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...
...mother's lap. Hostess Cramsie had just walked to the rear of the plane to fix a cold snack for the other passengers. Later, only one passenger had a definite idea of what happened next. Paul Wolf, holiday-bound with his wife and daughter, thought he saw a pale, blue flash through the porthole...
...trained (male) nurse in attendance have had some strange cases; fractures, dislocations, bruises. One of the strangest happened about two years ago. A group of young men patiently carried in one of their teammates, who seemed to have met misfortune in a game of touch football. They laid the pale, gasping youth gently on the dressing-table, and stopped back. Several ominous machines were wheeled in while doctors gathered gravely around...
...silk-gowned, straw-bonneted officials wore different buttons according to their rank-from ruby red down through worked coral, smooth coral, pale blue, dark blue, crystal, ivory and gold. But they all talked the same line. They referred to presents from the British Crown as "tribute." They insisted silkily that matters of commerce could wait. Much more important-was the British ambassador ready to kowtow...
There is only one thing wrong with the result: most of the poems are pale, thin and derivative...