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Word: paleness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Crown Prince Umberto, Lieutenant General of the Realm, named him Premier to succeed Ferrucio Parri, De Gasperi was ill with influenza. At first, propped up in bed, sneezing and rheumy-eyed, he haggled with fellow politicians. Then, pale and weak, he left his bedchamber for day-&-night sessions in the Chigi Palace. Punctually at 7 each morning a neighbor's phonograph woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Cure | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...more she thought about it, the bloodthirstier her language became: "Yes, they're nutty all right, these 'liberals'-for they can't see further ahead than the first frenzied days of plunder, murder, fire, rape and prancing about with pale, fresh-cut human heads on bloody pikes . . . besotted in their lust for blood and carnage and dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who's Loony? | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...Picasso still life unhelpfully entitled Painting, in white, yellow, pale blue and black, showed that Old Master Picasso still wielded a powerful brush. Forbidden to exhibit during the occupation, he painted every day. Picasso's message to U.S. artists: "Tell them to work hard - like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big Three | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Their married life was not a happy one. Aurore soon became pregnant and spent most of her time alone in bed, sick with nervous despair and turning pale at sight of her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Always a Woman | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...sunny day last week 26-year-old Corporal Desmond T. Doss stood at attention on the White House lawn. President Harry Truman placed a pale blue ribbon around his neck, shook his hand warmly. As he stepped back-the first conscientious objector in U.S. history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor-generals, admirals, Cabinet members, his proud parents and his pretty wife applauded enthusiastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God & the Other Fellow | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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