Word: pallid
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...last week when Britain's Ernie Bevin rose ponderously from his se.at near Vishinsky. Bevin, looking straight ahead, said: "I think it would be a great mistake if any country could not have its complaint heard." Everyone in the room snapped to attention. Vishinsky was a picture of pallid, intense concern. Bevin warmed up throatily on Greece (which Russia had brought up to counteract talk about Iran). Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Undersecretary in the Foreign Office, leaned forward and tried in vain to calm him. But Bevin ploughed on: "I am so tired of these charges by the Soviet...
...Labor-Management Conference was a flop. Delegates conceded this week that they would do well to reach as much agreement as the pallid platitudes of last spring's management-labor charter (TIME, April 9), which has not altered the battle lines by an inch. President Truman's observers reported back to the White House that he had misplaced his hopes in banking on the conference to settle anything; he might as well abandon them...
...this pallid reaction the President was partly to blame. He had shown courage in delivering his message in person, braving the uneasy reception his advisers had urged him to avoid. Yet out of deference to Congressional sensibilities-or perhaps merely out of the traditional American preference for euphemism-he insisted that his plan for universal military training was not conscription...
After her son Maurice was born, she began to write-and to live-romantic fiction. One day she introduced into the household a pallid young man who, she explained, was henceforth to be her second "spiritual husband...
...customary bald-faced narrative prose some passages in blank verse written by Private Harry Brown-and for the customary sports announcer's voice, a far more intelligent Voice of History. Though the verse is generally middling and the BBC-accented Voice of History is a trifle pallid, the innovation is as welcome as it is startling...