Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Source of the smoke are 100 forest fires burning in the general district of the Alaska highway in Northern British Columbia and Alberta. The pall, covering all New England, extends westward to Iowa and southward to the Carolinas...
...pall of purple smoke hung over Inchon. Our boat passed Wolmi, seized by our third battalion earlier in the day; it seemed battered and beaten, and great beige scars lay on its green hillside...
...would have given Conrad a Bronx cheer; that is, if DeCarlo had read books. He had sailed a lot, but had really "never traveled." He had "America lashed onto him like a rucksack and he spread it out in the handiest spot." He had smuggled 1,700 cartons of Pall Mall cigarettes aboard ship, and he was going to spread them out on the Bangkok black market. His modest objective: enough cash to start a used-car business back in the States and quit the sea for good...
...tradition by which the House of Commons may squeeze information from any Cabinet member. Congress accepted with good will, and members filed into the auditorium of the Library of Congress. But when the Secretary arrived, looking as if he had just left a London tailor, their enthusiasm began to pall...
...Hahn had proved himself so able a booster of sales that Hill moved him into the presidency of American's biggest subsidiary, the American Cigarette & Cigar Co. There, Hahn took on American's new, king-sized Pall Malls and pushed them so vigorously that they started a U.S. fad for longer cigarettes. In ten years Hahn has pushed Pall Mall from eighth place to fifth-in all U.S. sales, according to trade reports. Even last year, when Lucky's sales slipped, Hahn boosted Pall Mall's 21.4%. Directors hope he can do the same for Lucky...