Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murphy didn't look bad till the last 1-3/4 mile," McCurdy said. "I've never seen Murph look so tired and pale as he did with half-a-mile to go--and that was when he started to make his move...
Before Bath, there is an innocence to Gainsborough's portraits that occasionally looks almost spectral: the early figures of Heneage Lloyd and His Sister, round-eyed adolescents in a rococo garden, look like large pale dolls haunting an artificial landscape. Confidence came with his absorption of the grand manner. With access to the big houses, the young painter could see the work of Rubens, Van Dyck and Claude. He rapidly learned to deal with the social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares...
...extension of the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment, Reagan opposes the ERA. Where Carter undoubtedly would appoint justices who will safeguard civil liberties, Reagan and the platform he runs on state that nominees for the Supreme Court would be screened for their opposition to abortion; we pale at the thought of five clever, conniving William Rehnquists making decisions that would affect us for decades to come...
...relish for the ironies of the situation. Somewhere in one of those classes, as Nabokov might have guessed, was at least one future novelist, Thomas Pynchon. Somewhere in his own imagination glimmered at least two future academic portraits, the title character of Pnin and the poet John Shade of Pale Fire...
...indomitable pair of Darlene Beckford and Kristen Linsley did their now familiar one-two shuffle routine, making the opposition pale in comparison. Beckford won the meet, setting a new course record at 17:09, with fleet-footed shadow Linsley right behind...