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Word: pales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives just west of Third, on a dead-end street where END has been crossed off the sign. The windows in her house are blue. She heads home after a tutoring session in chemistry. Mallory lives just off Sixth Avenue, near the Park Slope line. A streetlamp sheds a pale beam in a circle in front of his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

...Russell's day, the '50s and '60s, "a good white forward" was the N.B.A.'s notion of the Holy Grail. Everyone was out searching. The common anxiety over Caucasian attendance was as plain as the pale nose on every twelfth man's face. And it was expressed in the extreme whenever a team like the Atlanta Hawks traded Paul Silas, a great forward, for Gary Gregor, a white one. Sixteen years later, the mind still reels. "Now all the whites in the league can play," testifies Silas, an assistant coach with the New Jersey Nets. "Well, anyway, the majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Impressions in Black and White | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...Most students are back in their rooms by now. The room at Room 13 is furnished with old sofas and overstuffed chairs. There is a serviceable if not beautiful pale green carpet, and a New York poster hangs on one wall. The exposed pipes overhead let visitors know that it's a basement, but it's not uncomfortable...

Author: By Alice K. Ma, | Title: From Sundown to Sunrise, Room 13 is There | 12/2/1985 | See Source »

...Alice, who has not only a husband but also a hospital job in both ports, is also the mother of three. Simon (Rachid Ferrauche), her Parisian 10-year-old by Philippe, is not only quite pale but also slightly pink, and already attending socialist rallies and talking proletariat revolution. With Vincent, in the more sedate suburbs, she has a boy and a girl who are bratty in a more usually puerile sense...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...pale hand had been stilled, its batteries worn out by too many demonstrations. "Poor fella," said David Stein, who manned the booth. "I didn't realize my poor animals would suffer...

Author: By Alice K. Ma and Gary L. Susman, S | Title: Harvard Meets Harvard | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

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