Word: pallidity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beck was to make his speech, an advance copy reached the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (circ. 70,000), Switzerland's most influential newspaper. Shocked to the core of their neutral souls, the editors alerted the National Day Committee and Zurich's Board of Education. Result: Beck delivered a pallid speech from which his blast at neutrality had carefully been blue-penciled...
Butler Up. First on stage was that rising star of British politics, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Richard A. ("Rab") Butler. "A difficult time is not a time of crisis but a time of opportunity," said he with his usual pallid impassivity. "And it is in this spirit that I shall tell the House of . .. . the radical approach we must make to the much longer and harder task of restoring once more our economic strength...
...neighboring waters of his little kingdom that he first saw "a ripple with a dark center" breaking the surface-a ripple that grew into "a huge fin, a yard high and as long at the base," a "great black sail, the only visible thing upon limitless miles of pallid water...
...knife-wielding fanatics. Tricked out as a ballerina or a Hindu maharanee or a toothless hillbilly, she takes her assorted lumps and pratfalls with unflagging zest and good humor. Her mobile, rubbery face reflects a limitless variety of emotions, from maniacal pleasure to sepulchral gloom. Even on a flickering, pallid TV screen, her wide-set saucer eyes beam with the massed candlepower of a lighthouse on a dark night...
When it came, the Labor Party's pent-up quarrel broke into open mutiny. In the vote on Labor's own pallid motion (combining censure of Churchill with approval of rearmament), Nye Bevan and 39 of his followers stayed stolidly in their seats. Next came the vote on the government's motion approving the Churchill program. Attlee and the bulk of Labor stayed in their seats, abstaining but not voting against. But 40 Bevanites and another 15 Laborites, most of them pacifists, filed into the lobby in open defiance of party orders, to record Noes ("Nyes...