Word: paleness
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...pale graduate student eyed his cup of coffee. Would he have cream or sugar? No, only a slice of lemon...
Manhattan court reporters saw a familiar face: Gambler Frank Costello, returned from Milan, Mich., where he is serving an 18-month stretch for contempt of Congress, to face a federal charge of evading $73,000 in income taxes. From Costello, prison-pale and some 30 Ibs. lighter, the reporters heard a familiar croak: "Not guilty...
...looked pale and almost dazed with fatigue when he finally got back to Augusta, and he kept to his bed until noon the next day. Then, his temperature back to normal, he got up to soak up the sun and watch healthier golfers banging away...
Seven Communist ambulances preceded by two jeeps arrived first at the exchange site. Red officers hopped out of the jeeps and handed over lists of the U.N. prisoners they were returning. The men inside the vehicles waited patiently, pressing pale faces against the glass. Several drank wine from bottles, some joked and shouted; most were silent. The Reds released 50 South Koreans first, and they walked stolidly to their reception center. Then a Chinese medical attendant in a white coat, surgical mask and black boots threw open the double doors of an ambulance, and the first Americans appeared. They were...
...least, down to their last vulgarity and their final weakness. He also creates a picture of lower-class Londoners that jumps and twitches with life. Author Tilsley is no delicate craftsman; England is vastly overstocked with novelists who write silkier books. But compared to Tilsley, most of them seem pale fellows indeed. He has, as an English critic has said, "that uncommon thing, the Common Touch...