Word: palled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under a Pall. Though 90% of U.S. funerals are conducted with open coffins, the clergy are generally opposed. "If they had their way," says Stated Clerk Eugene Carson Blake of the United Presbyterian Church, "I think that most ministers would discourage the open casket during funeral services." Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike points out that while a dead body should be treated with respect, Christian doctrine teaches that it is no longer the person, who "in life to come receives a new, appropriate means of expression and relationship...
...many a modern city dweller who lives under a pall of smog, smokes incessantly, worries about fallout and sprays his flowers with pesticides, possible causes of cancer seem to close in on all sides. "It pleases many to think of cancer as a necessary concomitant of civilization," says Scottish Physician C. S, Muir, "a penalty to be paid for the abandonment of the rustic simplicity of a bygone age, a toll to be exacted for the convenience of the automobile and the pleasures of the cigarette." Even doctors dream of some remote part of Africa or Asia, "where, removed from...
Things began going wrong almost from the moment Gamal Abdel Nasser sailed into Algiers harbor to begin his state visit. The day he arrived, an Algerian minesweeper that had escorted Nasser's yacht sank with the loss of three crewmen. Then a pall was cast over the celebrations by the death of Algeria's Foreign Minister Mohammed Khemisti, who had been shot by a crazed assassin (see MILESTONES). On top of all that, a most unusual tornado swept across the country, killing twelve Algerians in one village. Many a superstitious Algerian peasant was convinced that the Egyptian visitor...
...course, the State Department has been singing a requiem over De Gaulle since 1940, and there is every reason to think he has accustomed himself to the tune by now. Washington's impatience to turn out pall bearers for Adenauer is also a bit premature. Inspired name calling notwithstanding, the two are very much alive...
...grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World War II was he able to scrape up enough capital and equipment to mass-produce cigarettes-and when he did, he nearly went broke. He staved off disaster only by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market their brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa...