Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Granted, there have been and will be meetings where the worst of the oratory is matched by will, whose occurrence 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 ceremonies have shifted from a leaky tent to a wooden structure, does...
Chesterfield's makers, who only a month before had solemnly denied any intention of bringing out a new cigarette, played a couple of shrewd tricks with the new cigarette. Unlike American Tobacco, whose Pall Mall is king of the kings, it does not have to have separate newspaper, radio and TV ads, can make the same ad serve double duty. A still bigger advantage is that, where OPS has refused to allow price boosts for existing standard or king-size brands, Chesterfield was able to get 1? more for its king by proving it costs more to make...
...truce tents at Panmunjom, nothing was settled either. A dismal pall of petty complexities had settled over a mission that once seemed pressing and simple. Daily, the truce delegates marched into their stove-warmed tents for the usual round of long, surly wrangles or ridiculous little meetings of a few minutes (one last week lasted only 120 seconds) at which neither side would speak. The issues were the too familiar ones-the Reds' insistence that Russia is a fit neutral to police the truce, the U.S. insistence on "voluntary" repatriation of prisoners, the usual exchanges of insults over mishandling...
...Philip, the Queen walked along the garden path linking Clarence House with St. James's Palace, to receive the homage of her Privy Council and sign the oath of accession. An hour later, in a blaze of medieval pomp, her accession was formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard below stood guardsmen holding rifles and bandsmen with drums muffled...
Pride of Petticoat. Like all the King's women, Nell was paid out of the Secret Service funds. The payments grew as Nell grew on His Majesty, until she was established as mistress of ?5,000 a year and a mansion in Pall Mall, and was second only to the Duchess of Portsmouth in the King's affections...