Word: paling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circled the area, taking photographs, logging everything, the airmen watched pale-faced as tiny ambulances sped toward a South Carolina community with the incredibly appropriate name of Mars Bluff...
...course, it is not much fun off the course either. There is no time for home or family, no real opportunity for the single girls to find male companionship. Spare moments see the shared motel rooms fringed with drying laundry and the corner table swept clear for a pale respite of gin rummy. Sometimes movies will help kill the evening if local enthusiasts do not come through with a cocktail party-but always for the ladies, the 19th hole is the toughest...
Friedrich Nietzsche was a pale, crabby hermit who sat in a cheap Swiss boarding house peering beyond good and evil and demanding, at the top of his apocalyptic voice, the rearing of a daemonically driven breed of superman. Just when the world began to get wind of his prophetic fulminations, he went mad. For the last tragic eleven years of his life, he was a myth-and so he has remained. Out of that myth Hitler's propaganda made him the philosopher of Naziism in World...
...racing against Rozsy worried Ron, the pale, frail-looking Irishman in Villanova's colors gave no sign last week when he glided easily into the early laps of the National Amateur Athletic Union mile. He picked a place in the clear, just off the pace, and let Chicago's Phil Coleman tow the field along. His slow (2:05.2) half bothered him not a bit. Farther back, Rozsy began to show concern. He wasted energy jockeying for the lead...
Without knowing it, TIME also sketched a revealing portrait of contemporary Germany. Pale but plump, simple-minded but Prussianistically pompous...