Word: pallid
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...autumn's fair weather there had been nights and days when a small raid or two and the endless slashing of Allied intruder aircraft against Germany's overstrained transport system were only pallid proofs that "Red" Harris intended to make good. But now, in January, when the winter was at its worst, the raids came hot, heavy and without cease. Perhaps, at long last, this was the promised beginning...
...early 1920s Ausborn fought against the thick-skulled youths lapping up the words of a pallid Austrian paperhanger, but by 1928 he was convinced that Hitler was destroying "everything that was decent in Germany." Ausborn left for Canada, to bring up his family in a free country...
...Past. The Revolution that was begun in 1917 by a handful of leather-coated working men and pallid intellectuals waving the red flag, by 1942 had congealed into a party government that has remained in power longer than any other major party in the world. It began under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, on Marxist principles of a moneyless economy which challenged the right to accumulate wealth by private initiative...
Since 90% of his listeners are Negroes, many people used to write asking whether Sid was colored. Actually he is slim, slick, pallid Sidney Torin, 33, brought up in Brooklyn's slums. For a year Symphony Sid lived in Harlem, acquired a full knowledge of Negro speech and habits. Today he even dresses like many Negroes, wears peg trousers (modified), a flat porkpie hat with a wide brim, knee-length camel's-hair coat, suede shoes...
Novelist Thirkell simply shows the three suitors weaving in & out of Marling Hall and stables, records their chatter and well-bred rivalry with a pallid smile. Color is added by a village idiot ("mentally far below even the standard that the BBC sets in its broadcasts to the Forces"); a British governess who has scrubbed the infant faces of half the nobility of England ("there's nothing like the English nursery for making ladies and gentlemen"); a French governess to whom the Britishers speak in their own version of he French language ("J'admeer beaucoup General de Gole...