Word: palled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plundering and burning continued after daylight and throughout the week. Under a greasy pall of smoke, fire trucks shuttled furiously through the streets, as often as not in response to false alarms. Several apartment buildings were burned. A store run by Goodwill Industries, a charitable organization chartered to help the handicapped, was ransacked and burned. The 79ers Bar, where it all began, was destroyed by a fire bomb. To no one's surprise, the regional urban-renewal office was wrecked and looted. Indeed, as one observer put it, Hough's busy arsonists were pursuing their own program...
...hours to find a spot. On weekends, raucous teen-agers contribute heavily to a delinquency rate -mostly underage drinking and petty theft-that would do discredit to a city of 25,000. Bumper-to-bumper traffic jams constantly bring back unloving memories of the freeways. At night, a soupy pall of smoke curls from thousands of campfires in the tent city. Cracks Camper Mike Hemel, who fled the smog and traffic of Los Angeles for Yosemite: "It makes you feel right at home...
...Second, some argue that abolition of the 2-S would make education difficult for anybody; without the deferment, the whole learning process would lie under a pall of uncertainty, for no student could be sure of his future. This objection overlooks many things. The present system, with its welter of criteria (class standing, board location, test ranking, etc.) casts a similar pall of uncertainty. Physical disruption of one's education need not be a disadvantage, as anyone who has taken a leave of absence can testify. In fact, the life of a student, neatly partitioned into semesters and marked...