Word: palely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale green floor of the House of Commons last week the champion orators of the Labor Party and of the Tory Opposition clashed in head-on combat. Technically they were debating Britain's monetary plight, but they both made slambang political speeches aimed straight at the forthcoming national elections...
...city better seen at night. Then it had mystery, beauty and grandeur-a mammoth black patchwork, spotted with the pink blossoms of the Bessemers, hung with lights stretching out between the pale river highways, the Ohio, the Allegheny and the Monongahela. In the daytime it emerged in all its sprawling ugliness...
Thomas Mellon faded into senility and Andy and R.B. ran the show. Andy-shy, diffident, frail, and pale-eyed, fingering his thin cigars; R.B.-hearty, affable, horsy, married to Jennie King, a lively lady who wore a red wig-two brothers quite unlike in most respects but exactly alike in their acquisitiveness and the accuracy of their financial calculations...
...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...
...good Senator first wanted to build his college at the town of Mayfield but insisted that Mayfield become dry. When the citizens objected, he moved the site to the neighboring hamlet of Pale alto, which obligingly passed an anti-liquor law. By moving the local railroad station from Mayfield to Pale Alto, the former was easily reduced to a suburb of the latter. Pale Alto is still a dry town, and a group of bars do a wonderful business just across the town line...