Word: pallid
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...Power. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde has never suffered from pallid faith in his own star. "God is with me," he said in public last September, "and those God helps along never fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen...
Moonlight's People. By the time Pericles became chairman of Athens' general assembly in 460 B.C., the pallid, inanimate population of the Acropolis might almost have been mistaken, by moonlight, for real people. Sculptures like Aphrodite (see cut) made the Pygmalion myth credible...
Captain Lyon, responsible for safety of personnel, hopes that no one will look directly at the explosion. Everybody privileged to watch, will have goggles with glass so opaque that it turns the midday sun into a pallid ghost. But the atom bomb's light can strike through it at 20 miles away, causing temporary blindness. The Captain's advice: face the other way, shut your eyes, cover your face with your arms. Then, an instant later, you may see something...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who has been called about everything else, was called by Artists' Agent Leora Thompson one of the few women whose legs "fully reveal their soul." Said Gamologist Thompson: Eleanor's legs reveal "traveling dynamism"; Stripteuse Margie Hart's-"suppressed dignity"; pallid Cinemactress Gene Tierney's - "exotic desires"; Dancer Vera Zorina's-"dynamic magnetism"; Columnist Elsa Maxwell's fatted calves-"outraged complacency...
...exchanges in the Security Council between Messrs. Vishinsky and Bevin. When the bitter anger of the Foreign Ministers' meeting had seeped out to the world, men's hope for themselves and for UNO all but vanished. But, at these public meetings, when Ernest Bevin turned upon the pallid Russian and Vishinsky turned upon the West's great defender, the effect was good, healthy and hopeful...