Word: paleness
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...Toil & Trouble. That afternoon, his face pale with cold and exhaustion, 40-year-old Ben Hogan teed off for the last round. The critical play came on the par-four fifth hole, where his second shot hit the green, spun, and dribbled into the deep grass edging a bunker, some 40 ft. from the pin. In trouble, Ben studied the difficult shot from all angles for fully five minutes. Then he hauled out a No. 9 iron, lined up the shot once more, and swung. The ball bounced, rolled boldly toward the hole, struck the back lip, bounced a foot...
...intended for clumsy human ears. A few of them (e.g., the songs of whippoorwills and song sparrows) can be heard complete, but others contain many parts that are too high-pitched. When heard by human ears, the golden crowned kinglet's song, for instance, must be a pale shadow of what it sounds like to another golden crowned kinglet, which can appreciate all of its highest notes...
...birdie. But on the whole, the film is relatively free of Communist blurbs. The wonder is that the movie, with grace and sureness, finds images to portray the symbols that swarm beneath the surface of the story. Sadko is a spectacle-in adequate color-that need not pale beside Cecil B. DeMille. Dancers flash, warriors buffet, giant storms roll by with a verve that Hollywood can seldom induce. Above all, it is a spectacle that gives glimpses of the soul as well...
First Base Camp. The Namche people blessed them and gave them almond cakes. Rested, they went on, and came to a pale red shrine, Thyangboche Monastery...
...heavily down the center aisle to his front-row seat. Acting Majority Leader William Knowland was there, briefing a cluster of reporters on the day's schedule, so Taft seated himself in Bill Langer's chair, beside Knowland, and propped his crutches against the desk. He looked pale and drawn, and his collar seemed too big. As an attendant shooed the press off the floor, Taft leaned over and began to whisper in Knowland...