Word: paleness
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...back of my closet, and I'm just itching for an excuse to use them. What are we waiting for, start those presses rolling, start those footballs floating through the crisp autumn air. "Get the boys out of the labs by Thanksgiving!" And what we'll do to these pale blue touch-football players is nobody's business...
...degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred and pocked by huge, overhanging boulders and ledges. In the morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions...
...Nolan was a pale-faced, bucktoothed youngster of 23 when he scudded into Eire's Civil Service on a foam of brilliant answers to such questions as "How far is the earth from the moon?" Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, he had lived until then without notable incident save a visit to Germany...
...ballot. No Pope had been chosen so quickly since 1623. Pacelli was the first Papal Secretary of State to become Pope since 1775. He was elected on his 63rd birthday. Said one Cardinal, who watched Pacelli while the votes were being counted : "I have never seen anyone look so pale and yet continue breathing...
...dream background for the war's latest good-will publication, an eight-cent booklet, Meet the U.S. Army, issued by His Majesty's Stationery Office. Roughly paralleling the U.S. Army's Short Guide to Great Britain in purpose, this handbook on American character was written by pale, pensive Louis MacNeice, 35-year-old Anglo-Irish poet, author of Plant and Phantom, Autumn Journal, etc. Since the war MacNeice has bloomed as a top-notch BBC script writer. He acquired American background in 1939 and 1940, when he traveled widely in the U.S., lecturing on literature, and gave...