Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bound for the huge open ground of the Horse Guards Parade for the annual ceremony of the Trooping the Color in honor of the monarch's official birthday. Suddenly, as millions of television viewers looked on, six shots rang out. The Queen's horse reared. She looked pale and shaken as she fought to control him, turning back to see whether Prince Philip and Prince Charles were all right. But none of the shots found a mark-all were blanks. The Queen, quickly recovering her poise, continued on her way, smiling at the crowds and at Prince Philip...
...Rome's ocher-tinted buildings fairly glowing in the late-afternoon sun, Pope John Paul II, 61, made his way gingerly down the steps of Gemelli Hospital, almost three weeks to the hour after being felled by a terrorist's bullets. He appeared gaunt and a trifle pale, but the sparkle was back...
Ages are to be compared not by numbers but by the best in them. And the best souls in our age pale before the best souls in the past. The decay of respect for the past, the decay of respect for authority, the decay of the notion of the classics -these are the banes...
...under investigation for corruption-ex-Foreign Trade Minister Jerzy Olszewski, 60, and ex-Construction Minister Edward Barszcz, 53-committed suicide. Meanwhile, there were signs of a possible new wave of unrest as thousands of students marched to demand the release of political prisoners. Yet all other cares seemed to pale before the loss of the prelate whom one weeping woman described as "our strength through all these years-he was our shepherd...
...braggart, of course, has always been present on the American scene, and boasting has been tolerated when it hap pened to come from certain types - poets, entertainers, politicians - who were considered beyond the pale anyhow. It was all right for Walt Whitman to indulge his flagrant self-celebration ("I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious") because, as a poet, he was lost to gentility anyway...