Word: sallow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among British correspondents in the U.S., the London News Chronicle's sallow, serious Robert Waithman was outstanding for his enthusiasm. He liked America, knew more about it than most natives, wrote sympathetically of its powers, fevers, and weaknesses...
...life (26 years) sallow, dewy-eyed Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Iran, had been anxious to please, an attitude largely conditioned by his autocratic father, the late, tough Reza Shah Pahlevi. Like his ten brothers and sisters, Mohamed Reza grew up in awe and admiration of the domineering old martinet who rose from the soil to root a dynasty in nothing more substantial than the high, dry air of Teheran's political intrigue...
Last week the song's author was happily aware that everything was not fini. Sallow-faced, balding Composer Alstone (né Siegfried Alfred Stein), singing his hit, was the star of his own troupe at the Riviera G.I. rest center...
...Kenney's command under MacArthur will include three air forces: the Fifth, commanded by stocky, sallow Lieut. General Ennis C. Whitehead, which fought its way up through Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines; the Thirteenth, now commanded by a smart, 38-year-old pilot, Major General Paul B. Wurtsmith, which started in the Solomons, shifted to New Guinea, recently covered the Australian landings on Borneo; and the Seventh, veteran Central Pacific outfit which started in Hawaii and worked its way westward to Okinawa. The Seventh's commander: Brigadier General Thomas D. White...
...paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else's. Sometimes N.C.A.S.F. seemed to be drubbing Reporter White over the head with a peppermint candy stick. (White: "The women are drab, sallow and tired." Rebuttal, by Private Howard Katzander in Yank: "They have beautiful complexions and some are beautifully built...