Word: paling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vaio declaimed that "ita mater nostra imperitiam iuventutis dispulit atque ignoratiam" (Columbia "has driven away the inexperience of youth"), and once he slipped orotundly into Greek, extolling Columbia's pressure àperńs els áxpov ixéσoa.i ("to reach the summit of excellence"). Slender, pale Classicist Vaio, who finds that world affairs, science and business "do not amuse" him, graduated with a higher average than anyone since 1952, won a summa. He was born in Oakland, Calif., the son of immigrant Italian parents; his late father was a cook. Bored in high school with "incomprehensibly...
...wares. Came a dress that appealed to her: "It's heavy as lead, but I love it." Came another, pushed too hard by the salesman: "Yes, I see how lovely it looks on the rack. You can just leave it there." At Alper-Schwartz she examined a pale green brocade: "That's a good mother-of-the-bride." At Ceil Chapman, she picked up a beaded taupe silk chiffon sheath (retail price: $395). At Estévez, she bought a few items that the trade describes as "church-and-drinking dresses"-they can go anywhere. "Air conditioning...
...pulse) caused by nervous tension. When he was accused of having beaten to death the Jewish boy, Eichmann furiously scribbled notes to his lawyer; his mouth twitched, and he ran his tongue over his teeth. At times, his facial tics seemed uncontrollable. He has obviously lost weight, and his pale blue eyes show anxiety and strain. The physical change was emphasized last week when Baron von Freudiger was asked if he could recognize Eichmann. The baron stared at the defendant for a long time, then said: "In my memory lives the image of the lieutenant colonel in a smart uniform...
...Bicarb. In Texas, where most of the cooking is so bad that bicarb has replaced the after-dinner cordial, many topnotch restaurants, such as Azzarelli's in Houston, are ignored. So many routine drive-ins are listed in Arkansas that top-drawer restaurateurs complain that their own stars pale in comparison...
...grade-school teacher in the Westphalian city of Bielefeld, Henze played the piano at five, took ballet lessons at six. Drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18, he continued his musical education at Heidelberg and Paris, soon decided that "old-style music sounds pale and insufficient." He spent the next 15 years rattling off dozens of chamber works, symphonies, ballets and operas that earned him a name as a one-man revival of German music...