Word: palled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over. Slowly, almost reluctantly, the 50,000 or more New Yorkers drifted back to their cars and edged their ways homeward, drenched still by the humid pall, their senses once again dulled by New York's night heat...
...Case." Kozlov's climb to the big time paralleled the infamous purges that constituted the so-called "Leningrad Case" of 1948-49, when Stalin Protege Georgy Malenkov directed liquidation of Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov. When the pall lifted, there, mysteriously, was Frol Kozlov, party leader of the city. Good Communist Kozlov kept his nose clean, and in 1953 First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev did him the honor of traveling all the way to Leningrad to install Kozlov as party leader for all of Leningrad region...
...side of a bitter leadership battle was a fading movie actress supported by her floor leader and lieutenant, a goateed mind reader. On the opposite side was a former nightclub pitchman supported by fire-eaters, sword-swallowers and comics. As a flock of Washington reporters perched outside the Pall Mall Room of the Hotel Raleigh, the annual meeting of the American Guild of Variety Artists grew as raucous as anything that ever happened on a carny midway...
...illness cast a pall on the whole Western posture being worked out to meet Russia's new threats and demands on Germany...
...Judge Smith is not always so obstructive, and even his methods pall before those of some previous Rules chairmen, e.g., Illinois' Adolph Sabath, who used to feign fainting fits to get hearings adjourned. On the vast majority of bills Smith works closely with Rayburn or McCormack in speeding the legislative process...