Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first calls went to a loyal McPherson alumna, Rozella Switzer, the town's Democratic postmistress. Rozella, a widow in her 40's, runs an efficient post office, smokes Pall Malls, drinks an occasional bourbon & coke, likes politics and people. She was curious about the African students and invited them over. Two nights later they sat comfortably around her living room, sipping coffee, browsing through her books, listening to her records-and talking...
...year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished in a sulphurous pall. Outside, where the horse had stood, the snow was melted for 100 yards around...
There Shishekly too was diplomatically vague about his refugee resettlement program, and preferred to talk about land reform and reclamation. Lighting a Pall Mall, he said: "We hope the democratic countries-first of which is the U.S.-will help us. With money we can raise the standards of our people and fight bad ideas which are coming from . . ." He paused, leaving the sentence incomplete. His secretary, a young, English-speaking lieutenant, smiled and said: "You know what country the colonel means...
...formally resigned from the party. "Brother," he was told, "you don't resign . . . You are expelled." "This pall has been hanging over me for twelve or more years," he went on. "I cannot live with it any more." Said Senator Ferguson: "It is very refreshing to realize that there has finally been a place that you could come to . . . that a man can come in and testify and free his soul...
Granted, there have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurence is and will be a pall on the free world's get-togethers. A few thousand delegates from the winters of Democratic Centralism will soon sojourn in Moscow to applaud Comrade Malenkov's paean to production, and their unanimity will please no one this side of Workers' Heaven. And the fact that the snarls at Panmunjom have given way to terse announcements of adjournment, and that these brief ceremonics have shifted from a lcaky tent to a wooden structure, does...