Word: paling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheeler-and-dealer, a solidly built man of average height, is obviously proud of a thick, curly head of charcoal gray hair. His eyes, at a certain angle, seem also to be charcoal gray, but then they shift and become pale blue. Although he himself has become the subject of interviews and is increasingly sought as a speaker (not an expert) on a wide variety of topics, Susskind spends most of his time in New York with his wife, two daughters, and son. He hopes the boy will go to Exeter and then to you know where...
Next day at dawn, Grimau, pale but composed, was led into the courtyard of Carabanchel Prison just outside Madrid. He walked alone to the wall, refused a blindfold, shouted "Viva el Comunismo!", and then collapsed under a volley of shots fired by Spanish Moroccan troops...
...takes on some of the qualities of a bad dream. Defenders emit a high-sounding but vague rhetoric. Critics recite nightmarish examples of waste. The two sides seldom even get into communication. Both tend to talk in black and white terms of something that is a complex mixture of pale to dark greys...
Manila hummed with excitement as delegates gathered for the third annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asia. Phalanxes of motorcycle police escorted shiny official limousines to meetings at the pale, domed conference hall in the heart of the city. Inside the paneled auditorium and at diplomatic cocktail parties, an endless stream of dignitaries strolled up to greet the man who was the focus of everyone's attention. Malaya's stocky, smiling Prime Minister Abdul Rahman. 60. the golf-playing ex-playboy who this summer will bring into being a new Asian nation...
...inside pages, the newspapers' radio-TV critics did some outspoken promotion of their own. "Those interim dailies and the broadcasters made Gargantuan efforts to fill the void," wrote the News's Ben Gross, "but both were pale shadows of the real thing." Said the Journal's acerbic Jack O'Brian: "They had it all to themselves . . . and they blew it." To the Telegram's Richard Starnes. all the substitutes were "practically worthless to a hungry...