Word: paleness
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...years the doomful sound of drumming in the Congo night struck white men weak with fright. Black tribesmen, pounding out an ominous drum language of their own, threatened death to pale interlopers...
Early symptoms are a tired feeling, loss of weight, rapid breathing, fast heart action, vague pains in the joints, commonly called "growing pains." The child becomes pale, except for flushed cheekbones-the "rheumatic look." He sometimes develops a typical rash, and his joints may become red, swollen...
...schools were opened over the protests of Dover's school-board chairman, Captain F. R. Powell, who demanded that the Government force the youngsters out of town. Said he: "Children are living in caves and getting as pale and miserable as possible. ... If a shell from German Channel guns falls into one of our schools and kills or injures any of the children, the parents themselves will be to blame...
...Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull in Technicolor walked off with Zanuck's show, leaving his own star, downy Tyrone Power, a poor third.) The Works. After a year of being jounced around in free-lance Westerns (says she: "Those are the days I'd just...
...Pale face glistening in the floodlights, he mugged for cameramen with evident satisfaction, faced an audience of reporters that jammed the room to the walls. Behind him stood three aides, two of them chomping gum. Waggling his eyebrows, in sonorous, sneering, ironic tones he intoned his letter: "Sir, "Your letter at hand. . . ." Denying that the defense program would be impaired, reasserting the loyalty of his miners, Lewis said that if the President were going to restrain him, "then, sir, I submit that you should use the same power to restrain my adversary in this issue, who is an agent...