Word: paling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During Bridgeport's first 15 months at the plant, the elephant stayed deathly pale. By mid-1955, losses totaled more than $1,750,000. But Steinkraus was still confident that he could make aluminum production pay. Last week the company was running in the black, and Bridgeport's elephant was getting rosier all the time. The company plans to buy the plant from the Air Force when its lease runs out in 1958, is thinking of adding a rolling mill and will nearly treble the number of its employees as it expands...
Trips to the Hygiene Building usually bring to mind pictures of long lines of pale men and rising thermometers. This year, however, there will be a new look in Harvard's health services. It is too much to hope, of course, that the long lines will disappear, but 15 Holyoke Street will now be the center of a health and insurance plan designed to give all students a bigger bandage for a few extra dollars...
...next day the delegations met to certify the agreement. "The Russians looked like a pack of foxes after a successful raid on a chicken yard," wrote TIME Correspondent James Bell. "Chancellor Adenauer, pale and unsmiling shook hands with Bulganin without even looking at him, and stalked out without a word...
...Bulganin, indisposed from the "overwork" of the negotiations with Adenauer, was not on hand to greet Finland's 84-year-old President Juho Paasikivi and Premier Urho Kekkonen when they stepped from the Russian plane that had brought them from Helsinki. But two days later it was Bulganin, pale but smiling, who informed the Finnish Premier that because of the "friendly relationship existing between Fmland and the Soviet Union," Russia had decided to return the Porkkala base to the Finns and pull all Russian troops out of their country...
...Looking pale and, as the tabloids put it, "unglamorous," Cinemactress Rita Hayworth arrived in Manhattan with her two daughters, their nurse, 17 pieces of luggage and jet black (instead of her customary flaming red) hair. Having walked out on Husband No. 4, Dick Haymes, in Hollywood, Rita was setting out for Europe to give her daughters a chance to visit with their fathers. There was no problem about Husband No. 2 Orson Welles's seeing Rebecca, 10. But Rita wanted to be sure that she got back Yasmin, 5, after the child's six-week visit with Husband...