Word: palely
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...President's announcement that he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb was a decision that most U.S. citizens obviously approved, but about which none could be happy; driven by inexorable forces, the U.S. was setting out to make a weapon that would pale the deadliness of the atomic-fission bomb (see SCIENCE). As events had turned, it was essentially a defensive measure. The Russians could build and doubtless were building their own hydrogen bomb. If undeterred by threat of retaliation in kind, the Russians could deliver it by aircraft almost anywhere in the U.S.; by submarine...
Christian Vogel, pale and tired, climbed the stairs to his fourth-floor flat in Offenbach, an industrial suburb of Frankfurt. Silently he tossed a blue envelope on the table. His seven-year-old daughter looked puzzled. "Was ist los, Mutti?" she asked. Said her mother: "Dein Vater ist entlassen" (Your father is fired...
When the lights went up again, six deceptively slim and pale-skinned runners were waiting in a lonely and nervous group on the homestretch of the hardwood track. The loudspeakers announced the famed Wanamaker Mile. The crowd rumbled. Even those who did not quite understand the amateur's willingness to suffer for glory could feel the tension; the six were meeting in indoor track's main event, a punishing and uncertain contest which would be won only after all were half dead with blinding, burning fatigue...
...most of the spectators were concerned, the highlight of the evening was the one-yard victory of John Joe Barry of Dublin, Ireland, in the Hunter mile. Barry, cavorting about in a pale green outfit won in the slow time...
...report to make U.S. college and university fund raisers sit up with a snap. Education Professor Clara P. McMahon of the Johns Hopkins University had done a little digging in 15th Century fund-raising tactics at Oxford, found 20th Century techniques "pale in comparison." In an article in School and Society she told how it used to be done...