Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign. At ARENA'S final election rally, held last week in the cavernous national gymnasium in downtown San Salvador, some 16,000 supporters jammed the building, decked out in red-white-and-blue ARENA hats and T shirts. The audience cheered wildly when D'Aubuisson appeared, looking pale and nervous after a recent death threat. He was flanked by three heavily armed bodyguards. At the rally, three mariachi bands competed to see which could present the best campaign song. The winning entry declared that D'Aubuisson "will save the people from betrayal...
...craft, but the pilot wants to fire until the last bullet, and so we circle around the firing zone over and over again, corkscrewing to favor our "good side." The last ammo finally runs through the gun only when the light has gone and the sun is sitting pale on the slope of the volcano...
...mellow-was in plain view as we ate in that alfresco setting. The truculence appeared in his discussion of China. He spoke of his brother, who had worked there as an engineer before Khrushchev removed all Soviet advisers. He had found the Chinese treacherous, arrogant, beyond the human pale. They were cannibalistic in the way they destroyed their top leaders (an amazing comment from a man who had launched his career during Stalin's purges); they might well, in fact, be cannibals. Now China was acquiring a nuclear arsenal. The Soviet Union could not accept this passively; something would...
...past year, the Soviets have singled him out for punishment by slow starvation. After a closely monitored two-hour meeting with Shcharansky in early January his mother, Ida Milgrom, reported: "He looked so pale and so thin. For one year he has been starving. If he remains in this present situation he won't survive...
...cancer-prone character type, "far from being confined to the back yard of folk superstition, passes for the most advanced medical thinking." Sontag attempts to refute such theories, ascribing them to fear and ignorance in the face of a disease that eludes any comprehensive cure. Yet, cogent arguments seem pale beside Zorn's anguished testimony. Testimony that drowns out dissent through its own vehemence...