Word: pall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There was plenty to get upset about. Two years of unusually cloudy weather cast a pall over the entire operation. The hummingbirds died, and so did the finches. The bees failed to pollinate the squash, and mites feasted on the beans and white potatoes. One crew member, Jane Poynter, lost a fingertip in a thresher accident. (She was whisked out for emergency treatment and then returned.) The rest came down with assorted complaints: diarrhea, back pain, eye and urinary-tract infections and a cold that made the rounds until there was no one left to catch...
...lived up to its advance publicity; what does, these days? The mere possession of a ticket, raved the New York Times last June, "will have the magical properties of fairy gold . . . ((It)) will turn frog into prince and frump into Circe." This frog joined the queue for tickets in Pall Mall last week...
...POST-COLD WAR WORLD, INDUSTRIAL SPYING IS A HOT issue. Recently the threat of espionage cast a pall over U.S. firms planning displays at June's Paris Air Show. Now the CIA, the FBI and other American intelligence agencies are racing to finish their first-ever systematic study of the problem of foreign governments' spying on American companies. "There is an ongoing effort right now to scope out the size of it," says a senior intelligence official. "Our answer in the past has been too anecdotal. The point of this study is to move from the anecdotal to the analytical...
...about what wiped out the dinosaurs used to be planetwide climate change; now it's something completely out of this world. Sixty-five million years ago, goes the story, at the very end of the Cretaceous period, an asteroid or comet smashed into the earth, throwing up a planetwide pall of dust. The sun was blotted out for months, killing most vegetation and starving the dinosaurs. The mammals, which had blown a chance during the last mass extinction, 150 million years earlier, rushed in to take over the suddenly vacant ecological slots...
Many Arab and Arab-American students say stereotypes are the worst problem they face at Harvard. Though students interviewed last week said they had not encountered overt discrimination in their interpersonal relationships, they said the images perpetuated in publications recently have cast a racist pall over the campus...