Word: sallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about the same height (5 ft. 6 in.), with small bones and an unweathered complexion, Lerner is 42 and could pass for a graduate student. Both men are intensely ambitious for the critical success of their work, but Lerner clothes...
When Tito came to power, Archbishop Stepinac denounced his antichurch materialism and his political tyranny, drew a 17-day jail sentence in 1945. Curious about such a stubborn prelate, Tito summoned him and saw at once what he was up against. He tried to avoid a showdown with this sallow, unsmiling man. "I do not want steps taken against Stepinac," he is reported to have said afterward. "He has a martyr complex." But the outspoken archbishop was getting to be too much of a hero; people began to kneel as he passed on his daily walks through Zagreb...