Word: paler
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...mother sat on a hard chair by the front door with her mouth open. Her pale face paler than I had ever seen it. Her blue eyes staring. My father was driven into motion. He wanted to know details and to comb the cornfield along with the cops. I still thank God for a small detective named Len Fenerman. He assigned two uniforms to take my dad into town and have him point out all the places I'd hung out with my friends. The uniforms kept my dad busy in one mall for the whole first...
...Tournament provided a regrettable conclusion to the 2001 campaign. The Crimson dropped both its games at Fenway Park, including a 9-8 loss to the same UMass team it had buried 22-11 the previous week. Harvard returned home as the last-place finisher in the Beanpot and a paler version of the team it had been just five games before...
Even where green fervor is of a paler shade, corporations are viewing the potential for global regulation as a business risk they need to consider. Witness Claiborne Deming, Murphy's CEO, who doesn't see the science of global warming as solid enough yet to cry havoc. But Deming hears shareholders clamoring and the bureaucrats buzzing. Someone may ask his company to put more than a quarter in that box when it wants to exhale more than its allotted amount...
...joint venture of Oprah's Harpo Entertainment Group and Hearst Magazines (which is printing 1 million copies of the first issue), is produced in New York City by a staff headed by editor in chief Ellen Kunes. A small, quiet, blond woman rendered even paler by the fluorescent bulbs of her office, Kunes was explaining the magazine last week with the careful blandness of a woman alert to the wiles of print journalists, when a loud voice called from down the hall. This was Gayle King, O's editor at large and, more important, Oprah's best friend. King...