Word: palely
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Langer's voice was growing hoarse, and his face pale and haggard. By 5 o'clock he was in obvious distress. Humphrey, fresh and trim after a midnight shower and shave, sidled up to him. "I can stay until 6 o'clock," hissed Langer. "Go get some sleep...
...bound liner, were flying him back from Gibraltar. Outside the House of Commons, hundreds watched the arrival of the invalids. Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps and Hugh Dalton were brought back from rest cures, R. W. G. Mackay from a hospital. Thomas Hubbard, awaiting an operation, turned up, pale and haggard, with two attending doctors. J. P. W. Mallalieu, who had been suffering from shingles, afterwards wrote: "Medical science is wonderful. First it was deep X rays. Then it was penicillin. Now it's divisions in the House of Commons." The sound of the division bells, he said...
...first ship-christening, pretty Mrs. Alben Berkley smashed the bottle against the new luxury liner President Jackson with a right good will, grimaced good-naturedly as the champagne showered over her pale blue dress...
...Pilot Robert C. Lind climbed westward away from Manhattan, the moon turned pale and then went out behind thick clouds. Three hours later, after he had crossed blackened Lake Erie and passed the lights of Detroit, he could see the flickering glow of lightning ahead on the horizon, the cold front the weather maps had predicted...
...weather might have cracked tougher spirits, and young Rilke barely kept from going to pieces. At 16, he finally persuaded his family to let him study the classics and go on to the university. Soon he was a well-known figure in the streets of Prague, a wraith-pale young man in a black frock coat and broad-brimmed hat, drifting vaguely along in a rapture with a long-stemmed iris he held before him like a votive candle...