Word: palely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pale substitute for an earlier practice, banned years ago by the Belgians, which employed sinews from the penis of a Lunda warrior ceremonially slaughtered for the occasion...
...year there were few signs of the panic-stricken collapse that cost them the pennant in 1962. Since Labor Day, the Dodgers have been playing .715 baseball. The excitement came from the St. Louis Cardinals, who last won a pennant in 1946, and in recent years have been a pale shadow of the great Gashouse Gang of the '30s. The experts picked Manager Johnny Keane's Cards for fifth place. But now, ready for a fateful three-game series with the Dodgers this week, they were only a few steps behind and playing impossible baseball-winners...
Best known among the other winners were Sam Francis, who lofts petals of color on huge expanses of canvas, and Ivan Albright, painter of meticulous magic-realist works. Kenzo Okada won with his serenely pale abstract, Posterity, which blends European and Oriental idioms. Least appealing of the prizewinners were Ennio Morlotti's garishly colored, gouged abstract called Cactus and Paolo Vallorz' standing nude, a throwback to the Art Students League life class...
...business. "He was intensely interested in every story in the paper," said a Post editor. "But he ran it with a wonderfully light hand." For Washington's best-read newspaper, it seemed at times too light. With all its influence, the Post (circ. 409,000) is still pale beside the ranking U.S. newspaper, the New York Times...
...walked to the call desk and, to my chagrin, found that there was no buxom female to fumble through 10,000 cards before telling me my book wasn't in. "What's happened here?" I asked the male at the desk almost incoherently. He turned a little pale, and nodded toward a darkened, glass-walled room where "it" made its home...