Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-man submarine Alvin made a startling discovery. Though they were cruising at a depth of more than 1½ miles, where the absence of sunlight usually results in a barren sea bottom, they found a veritable oasis of life. Clustered around deep-ocean vents, they spotted giant clams, pale yellow mussels, white crabs and worms nearly 5 ft. long...
Hinckley sat, pale and hunched, displaying no emotion, as the prosecution showed an NBC videotape of the shootings outside the Washington Hilton Hotel and questioned witnesses of the attack, including two of the victims, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy and District of Columbia Police Officer Thomas Delahanty. The prosecution also showed a startling ABC videotape of President Jimmy Carter campaigning in Dayton, Ohio, on Oct. 2,1980. While Carter shook hands in a crowd, Hinckley's face appeared, bobbing up and down, in and out of focus, only six feet away from the President. A week later Hinckley...
There are two principal forms of the disease. In tuberculoid leprosy, few bacilli are present, and the symptoms are pale, patchy spots on the face, hands and feet. In the more contagious, lepromatous form, many microorganisms are present in the skin and in nasal secretions; patches and lumps can occur all over the body, and the facial lines tend to deepen. Leprosy does not usually cause gross mutilations. But it can cause a numbness of the hands and feet that leads to accidental burning or mutilation of extremities. This is a source of the myth that leprosy causes parts...
...hard to get impassioned or poetic about interest rates and budget deficits. Newsweek deserves credit for disentangling these issues of fiscal and monetary consistency from a more urgent one. "And the poor get poorer," its headline cried out, overburned on a more forceful epigram--the color photograph of a pale young girl, frail, lips parched, and with a gaze, projected out of dreary-blue irises, of a spirit struck with morbid hopelessness...
...best-known supporter here, argued in last summer's Foreign Affairs that by bringing the PLO into negotiations on a Palestinian state the U.S. could stabilize the region's regimes and thus defend its interests. The currents of nationalism, pan-Arabism and pan-Islam, while undeniable, pale in comparison with the Palestinian issue, he contended. All Arab regimes, whether conservative or radical are united in their support for the PLO's claims...