Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for this discrepancy has to do with the very size and importance of each of the Olympics. In numerical terms at least, the Winter Olympics pale in comparison to their summer sibling. Fewer athletes from fewer countries participate in few events. For many nations, the Winter Olympics simply do not carry the prestige of the Summer Games Ironically, this may be the Winter Olympics' saving grace Exactly because they are not a global media mega-event, the Winter Olympics avoid many of the political and commercial pressures that can turn an idealistic international sporting event into an ideological battleground...
...conclusion, we would assert that the issues of racial unity in general, and Black-Jewish relations in particular, pale in importance next to the opening of this nation's political structure to a segment of the population to which it has traditionally been closed. We further contend that any analysis that attempts to reverse this order is hopelessly skewed and hopelessly racist. Frederick C. Meten '85 Stephen M. Tayler '84 Alan R. Jackson '84 Abner A. Masson '85 Mark E. Brown...
...Denver reporter, who had not seen Gary Hart for weeks, thought he looked terrible-haggard, pale, tapped...
...some inchoate manner for mankind, that abstraction imprisoned on "the crazy ball flying through space which if you care or have to think of it is an enormity verging on, no, surpassing outrage." At this level of ambition, The Paper Men invites unfortunate comparisons with Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, the best and funniest work yet on the usurpation of a creative mind. Golding's book cannot match the Nabokovian magic; it is a random collection of jigsaw pieces jumbled together from different puzzles. -By Paul Gray...
...from political reporters. When a TV correspondent suggested that Hart counter Mondale's "Where's the beef?" line by displaying his book A New Democracy between buns, Hart produced a "bookburger" at the very next stop. When another correspondent complained that Hart's neckties were too pale for TV and suggested he "wear red," the candidate began sprouting red ties...