Word: palled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China's direst crisis, China might still win. But for the little people, there were no bright spots on the pall of disaster...
...amphibious tractors] when I boarded a small boat at 7:45 with a brigadier general and his staff. We rode out to a control vessel to await orders to land. By now the acrid stench of gunpowder was strong, even 3,000 yards offshore in the control boat. A pall of smoke now covered the length of the island, obscuring even Mt. Tapotchau. A shell splashed 150 yards off our bow. Said the captain: "I think we are being sniped...
Bert Brandt, an Acme photographer, later reported: "Boats were burning and a pall of smoke hung over the beach. I saw some bodies of soldiers who had been killed in the first landings floating in the water. . . . There were tremendous rafts floating offshore, jammed with trucks, tanks, ambulances...
During the "little blitz" early this year, the Germans cut loose with one characteristically short, severe raid on London's West End, landed a heavy bomb squarely in the street at the western end of Pall Mall, with a shower of explosives and incendiaries on nearby buildings...
...Times's late, fastidious Richard Aldrich: "She has become a sort of tutelary saint of women's clubs, where her music is industriously studied, discussed, played and sung, and where, not altogether fortunately, it sets a sort of standard. . . . There are few composers whose music will not pall when an entire long program is made exclusively of it; and Mile. Chaminade is not one of these. . . . But apart from all this, Mile. Chaminade is an artist who can maintain a certain position of her own through her own powers and achievements...