Word: paleness
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...Bender's secretary, broke the news to Bender. Ohio's five-term Governor Frank Lausche, fabled Democratic vote-getter, had decided not to run for another term as governor of Ohio, instead had announced that day his candidacy for Bender's Senate seat. George Bender turned pale and left the room...
...tiny, dark, vivacious Dora Creditor Frost, a divorcee of Russian-Jewish descent. They live modestly in a twelve-room house in Hampstead, rent five rooms to a tenant. They have two teen-age daughters, one son by Mrs. Gaitskell's first marriage. Gaitskell has blue eyes and pale red hair, loves parties, likes to dance. "My dancing is notorious," he admits. In Parliament, he is sharp, often witty, but occasionally suffers from a tendency to lecture his colleagues like the economics professor he is. He disdains backroom political intriguing, is usually surrounded by a few young, admiring economists...
Never far from the side of Bulganin and Khrushchev in Asia was a shadowy Third Man. He had a thin, sharp face with fine lines around pale grey-blue eyes, a firm mouth and straight nose, a high forehead, thinning brown hair and sandy eyebrows. He was broad and short, and it was noted that his shoes had extra-thick soles. His hands were large and hairless with thick, short fingers. He wore only grey-blue suits. Correspondents took him for a plain-clothes cop on a tour of VIP duty, but they soon learned that this was no ordinary...
Everywhere, the Communists demanded stringent security measures, forced the Indian authorities to keep newsmen a safe distance from the Marshal and the Commissar. But when these measures broke down in Calcutta, the shadowy Third Man suddenly materialized. His pale cod eyes like ice, his big hands gripped into fists, he shouted harsh orders that made lesser goons leap. A snap of his fingers brought Soviet ambassadors running to his side...
Though most had been impatiently awaiting his resignation ever since he suffered a mild stroke last summer, the room was swept by a wave of pale, nostalgic affection for the unobtrusive-seeming man who had been their leader for a record 20 years. Attlee had intended to linger in power until early next year, but on a recent speaking tour of Scotland, renewed and pointed hints had got under his skin, and he had made his sudden decision almost in a fit of pique. The tributes over, Attlee rose, snapped: "Well, thank you. Thank you very much," and walked straight...