Word: paleness
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...Doctrine. Pale, birdlike Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, who had planned the strategy for cracking Rommel's Luftwaffe in Egypt, had become Spaatz's boss by then. The Casablanca conference had given Sir Arthur command of Allied air from North Africa's west coast throughout the Mediterranean area...
Berliners know the road the big planes take from England. Far out to the westward last week, soon after the sirens sounded, they could hear the first mutter of the flak, see the pale searchlights fingering the clear sky. In its nest of lakes, canals, rivers, their city lay dark and deserted, its only voice the growing clamor of the guns...
...looks, smells and tastes like the very best butter, and it may be on your butter plate at one of the nation's best hotels-yet it may not be butter at all. Secret of the pale gold ersatz product is a new "butter culture" called Extrin, which makes white vegetable shortening (Crisco and Spry are trademarked examples) taste and look like real butter...
Cried Norman Thomas, pale repository of Socialist hopes: "Such a policy profoundly menaces the achievements of a just and lasting peace. . . ." That was a large, loose statement. More prophetic of troubles to come was the fundamental clash between Polish and Russian national interests...
...poets who add new chapters to the modernist testimony are Karl Jay Shapiro, 29, and Randall Jarrell, 28. Shapiro, drafted into the army in 1941, is on duty as a sergeant somewhere in the southwest Pacific. Baltimore-born, poverty-wise, he is a Jew who has lived outside the pale in a democracy that often proudly kids itself that it erects no pales. At the University of Virginia, which he attended only long enough to leave in disgust, he decided that