Word: pallidly
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...after he had become a Ph.D. in psychology, he was made editor of the Tidings when it was a pallid sheet read as a duty by only about 10,000 of the faithful. A man whose sense of morality is easily outraged, Father McCarthy promptly declared war on the mores of the Los Angeles area, later waged personal feuds with Columnists Drew Pearson ("Vicious slander and irresponsible smearing") and Louella Parsons ("Cheap, meretricious twaddle"). He also hired some topnotch reporters and sharpened the style. ("Get rid of stodgy stories," he ordered. "The essence of journalism is sensation on the wing...
...also brought along his royal fiancee (Gail Russell), armed with a movie camera. The challenge is impressive, but Sabu meets it by scuttling about at night releasing the animals the prince has captured by day. This lands him in a peck of trouble with the prince and a pallid little flirtation with the princess. Meanwhile, taking a cue from Gail's amateur camera work, the picture provides some good professional close-ups of unusual birds, beasts, and reptiles at work and at play...
...Danger. No one has ever given a good reason why soccer, a game which stirs a large part of the world to hysteria, causes little but polite yawns in most of the U.S. The ardor with which U.S. fans pursue baseball is pallid compared with the interest of soccer fans in the 50-odd nations in which it is a national game. In Buenos Aires, referees are sometimes hustled out under police escort lest they be torn limb from limb by the spectators. From Moscow to Melbourne, the action and drama of the game thrill crowds who consider American football...
...worn, plump, pallid figures never looked posed; they were painted as Bishop had first sketched them, in the park or subway or on the street, licking ice-cream cones, reading newspapers, chatting on park benches. There was no glamour in Bishop's handling of them, and no heavy realism either. Her models might be too rumpled and dispirited for Vogue magazine, but they shared a dreamlike solemnity and detachment that is seldom found on the street...
...game was not pallid; Yale received 13 penalties six for one burly defenseman Lawrason Sayre, and Harvard got nine. The final game left the varsity with an exactly even 6 to 6 record. But all but one of the wins were foregone conclusions, while the team to beat--Yale, Dartmouth, Williams--were not beaten, But wait till next year, Bill Harkness...