Word: sallow
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...burp guns and seemed to have plenty of ammunition. The officers were upper-crust Guatemalan exiles-lawyers, engineers, coffee planters driven out for their politics or stripped of some of their land under Arbenz' Communist-administered agrarian reform program. Castillo Armas himself turned out to be a slender, sallow, diffident man in a checked shirt and leather jacket, with a .45 automatic jammed into the belt of his khaki pants...
...dull afternoon last week, Mrs. Inez Elizabeth Krone, a Bakersfield, Calif, housewife, drove out across the Kern County desert to spend an idle hour at shaded, oasis-like Hart Memorial Park. When she was six miles from Bakersfield on her way back, she saw a sallow young man in slacks and a white shirt standing beside a stalled model A Ford. The road was empty of traffic. There were no houses for miles. Mrs. Krone, a friendly, matter-of-fact woman, slowed her 1951 Buick and asked through the open window if she could be of any help...
Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...imprisonment." On hearing the news, Allmendingen's Bu germeister promptly closed the village school and marched the children, town councilors and teachers up to the castle for an official "Welcome Home" for the old (65) soldier. As a band oompahed Im Schdnsten Wiesengrnmde (In the Beautiful Meadow), Manstein, sallow and strained, took a bouquet of lilacs and tulips from the kiddies and said: "We hope for the reconciliation of all peoples and for unification of Europe." It was the eighth anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender...
...Friday afternoon, a motor hearse rolled to the ornate House of the Trade Unions. There, where Lenin lay in state in 1924, the neatly arrayed remains of Joseph Stalin were placed. In sallow, impassive dignity, Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from...