Word: paleness
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...Indians." Last week, his nerves frazzled by guests and gawkers, Medeiros shepherded his guests into a Brazilian air force Lodestar plane to take them back home. One buck had a cold, but otherwise the savages looked none the worse for their brush with civilization. Medeiros was pale, haggard and bone-tired...
...Konomi, Tokyo's gangsters, plutocrats, diplomats, legislators and sybarites could shake off the dust of the city in a palace rivaling Roman Cara-calla's wildest dreams. It boasted 50 private bath and massage rooms tended by a corps of 130 cute, almond-eyed masseuses in pale blue bras and panties. Miss Turko, they all called themselves, in keeping with the Turkish atmosphere...
Seventy-two-year-old E. M. Forster is almost as rumpled and untidy as his rooms. The tweeds he wears are worn and baggy, his thinning grey hair unruly, his bushy grey mustache in need of a trim. Bony and angular, with pale, piercing eyes, he looks, as one American interviewer put it, rather "like a spare, intelligent, ruffled heron...
...what I did, not for gain but to save humanity from the horrors of another war," a tall, pale Swedish petty officer calmly told a Stockholm court last week. What Flag Engineer Ernest Hilding Andersson had done-this navy man of more than 20 years' standing-was to sell a sheaf of Sweden's closest military secrets to the Russians for 4,530 kronor (about $900) expense money...
...French colonialists last week gave a classic example of too little & too late. They held elections for the Consultative Chambers of Commerce and Agriculture -French Morocco's powerless, pale imitation of a parliament-and generously broadened the electorate 15 times (to 150,000). A decade ago, the nationalists would have cheered such a concession. Last week, the nationalist Istiqlal party warned all Moroccans to boycott the election : it wanted nothing less than complete independence...