Word: paleness
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...night the moon still bowed her pale head above the sea. The languorous trade wind drifted across the water. Storms broke on the dark crest of Diamond Head, stalked down the swift slope to the harbor. But Hawaii was not the same. Alone in the great quiet of the Pacific, 2,100 miles from any continent, Hawaii waited. The tension was strung tight as harp wires...
Thomas C. Blaisdell Jr., 46, assistant director of the National Resources Planning Board. Pale, slight Tom Blaisdell taught economics at Columbia University and Yenching University-biggest, best-equipped Christian university in China-has worked for the Government on AAA, NRA, TNEC, National Emergency Council, Social Security Board...
Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...
What the audience heard was an old-fashioned opera of love, misunderstanding and renunciation. Its six scenes, all laid in the Basque country, began in a murky smuggler's hideout, ended within the pale walls of a convent. The hero, a young smuggler and pelota champion (his name, Ramuntcho, is the Basque diminutive for Raymond) is separated from his Gracieuse by the army's call, then lost to her forever through the machinations of the girl's mother, who intercepts all their letters, thus driving the brokenhearted daughter into holy orders. When Ramuntcho returns and exposes...
General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years...