Word: paleness
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...longer. The day after he put a temporary gag on Henry Wallace, he called his Secretary of State on the transatlantic phone. The connection was bad. So he walked to the teletype in the White House communications room. In his mind's eye, no doubt, was the pale, birdlike face of Jimmy Byrnes bent over the teletype in the Paris Embassy. Across 3,800 miles the machines and the men began to talk...
...course he met men who seemed not to want knowledge. . . . He also met men who seemed not to want food. But ... by nature [man] has to eat-and he has to learn. If he stops eating, his stomach shrinks, his body gets thin, his face gets pale. If he stops learning, his mind shrinks, his thoughts get thin, his talk gets pale-and boring...
Gone too was disastrous Rule 42 C of the Defense Regulations, which had closed 174 nightclubs because the police had "reason to believe there was drunkenness" on the premises. Some 15 establishments had survived, ranging from the plushy "400" (newly decorated in pale peach and amber) to the brash "Nuthouse," whose walls are inscribed with legends like: "Through these portals the most beautiful girls in the world have passed...
...chosen, a messenger sped to bring the news to the Pope. Each elector kissed the hand of the new General in sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall, thin, pale, ascetic, 56-year-old ex-professor of canon law at Louvain University, later head of the Jesuit province of Northern Belgium...
Third Generation. In the lurid brilliance of George Washington Hill, his associates, all hand-picked by himself, seemed pale. But the men who know tobacco best knew that the company had a handful of capable top men from which to pick a new president. Last week gossip narrowed down to vice presidents Paul M. Hahn, 51, and George Washington Hill...