Word: palled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good or bad, the figures could not pierce the pall at the Palace. They were ancient history; the delegates were worried about Tomorrow. Long had the Council plumped for more and freer trade, steadily endorsed the reciprocal trade agreement program of Cordell Hull. Last week it watched the Secretary of State take one more backward step in his losing battle for commercial freedom: to the long list of U. S. foreign-trade restrictions was added an embargo on aviation gasoline to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. Free traders confronted in San Francisco the question that lurks at every...
...even Maury Maverick succumbed to the pall that hung over Chicago. Said he, surveying the lacklustre scenes at the Stevens hotel ("World's Greatest"), where the National Committee was quartered: "This convention is like a mystery story in which everybody knows the answer to the mystery...
...rising suspense hung over Philadelphia. The pall spoiled the ordinary political gaieties. Uneasily, defiantly, the delegates debated with their consciences and each other; uneasily they tramped around to see Willkie again & again, catching fleeting glimpses of a shaggy man, haggard, hoarse, sweating, strange, standing on a hotel dressing-chair exhorting: "Vote for me early. It's better to come to grace early than late...
...gray pall, impenetrable as a Limehouse fog, settled over Paris last week. The long boulevards were veiled, the Arc de Triomphe blotted out. Parisians had never seen anything like it. Some thought it was the edge of a huge and newly invented Nazi smoke screen blown in from the front, for London and the southeast British coast were also sooted. Some believed it came from the suburban fires, others that it was the work of Paris' own Sainte Genevieve. Still others said...
Life in the Shadow. Under the pall of smoke that turned light clothes grey and made eyes smart, Paris life went on last week. The omnibusses and subways continued to run though less frequently, the radio stations broadcast only martial music interspersed with news bulletins and official communiques (as in Warsaw), people journeyed out to the suburbs to see the damage caused by Nazi bombers and to look at the wreckage of planes shot down. The cafes and the Bank of France remained open, and people stood in queues at local banks to withdraw their savings...