Word: paling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov...
Although I wanted to share my knowledge, I couldn't. My immediate neighbors, two business school students, were talking about their new dean. They had pale complexions, three-piece suits, and glasses. I didn't want to let anyone play hero and warn the pilot, so I just sat back and listened to the engines. I still felt Havana in my veins but I wanted my man to hurry...
Cetrulo, opening the match for Harvard, was nervous and somewhat pale. He dropped the first bout, but settled down and came back to post two convincing victories in the saber...
...part of its architecture-and no insignificant part at that. Churchill's bronze statue, like his impact, is larger than life. It stands 7 ft. 5 in. in height, weighs a ton, and cost $26,400. Clementine, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, 84, handsomely turned out in fur coat and pale blue feather hat, stepped forward to unveil her famous husband's latest image. Blinking in the bright lights, she pulled the cord and then started visibly as the drapings fell, to reveal her husband in his famous "bulldog" stance, with foot, chin, belly and vision forward. Permanently threatening another...
Late last week Indira lunched with Party Boss Nijalingappa in an attempt to avert the breakup of the Congress. Clad in what she considers to be her lucky costume-a pale yellow sari and a string of large black beads-she suggested that her deposed backers be reinstated. She refused, however, to reinstate the Syndicate members whom she had dropped from the Cabinet. "Not much was done at this meeting." admitted Nijalingappa. "No formula for unity has emerged...