Word: pales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Dawn-Chilled Face. In a climax reminiscent of the horror of D. H. Lawrence's The Prussian Officer, Gerald prepares to punish the boy for still another theft. His sadism unleashed, he pummels Duncan to death and then "gently [kisses] the pale, dawn-chilled face...
...every Sunday, Premier Ernest Charles Manning had stepped out of his role as boss of oil-booming Alberta, and assumed his other position as head of the Prophetic Bible Institute in downtown Calgary. To some 250 people, who had braved 12°-below-zero weather to hear him, the pale, slender politician preached in a twangy, compelling voice. Calgary's radio station CFCN carried his weekly Back to the Bible Hour to the rest of Alberta...