Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that it was also studying the ads of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike), its subsidiary American Cigarette, & Cigar Co. (Pall Mall), and Philip Morris & Co., and might bring cease & desist orders against them. FTC investigators have found, for example, that despite claims of being "easier on the throat," king-size cigarettes (such as Pall Mall) actually contain "more tobacco and therefore more harmful substances" than are found in an ordinary cigarette...
...explosion went off at 11:55 p.m. and was of such intensity that it shook the whole building. A large pall of smoke followed the blast...
Most of the talk about integration comes from this side of the Atlantic. Such talk is based on a desire to make the European economy look like the American, since the American is obviously functioning better. Europe's several, small, semi-isolated markets a pall the American businessman, who bases his output on a large, nation-wide market. Each European country fosters its own firms in most phases of production. The result is many small, high-cost plants throughout Europe instead of a few large, low-cost plants. Since the several small plants are usually protected from competition by cartels...
...forced breakup and final reunion of-families gives the movie an emotional core that is undeniably affecting. But tearful farewells can pall when protracted and repeated as they are in this script, and Director Negulesco's treatment of emotional scenes, notably at the picture's end, is so contrived to wring the last tear from the audience that it comes perilously close to cheapening them...
...such Godfearing models as Dante's Inferno but has much in common with the Godless statism of George Orwell's 1084; 2) the real British middle-class world of John Wallis seen through numerous flashbacks. Neither exploration is wholly successful. Wallis' purgatory, with its concentration-camp pall and forced pleasure-resort atmosphere is skillfully but too obviously contrived. Wallis' real-life experience, with its high quota of banal woman trouble, comes close to being boring...