Word: palled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airlines had failed to transfer my luggage. Because of the holiday, no one was working and I didn't get my luggage until January 1st was almost over. I had been wearing a new green dress to freak everyone out of their minds but the novelty was beginning to pall and I was yearning for my jeans. That evening we had a sedate family dinner, complimented the Christmas tree, and the fire-engine red harpsichord L.S.'s father had made as well as the royal blue room he had built onto the house...
...pall of dejection hung over the Harvard side of the Stadium, making what was an already gloomy enough Saturday afternoon even gloomier. It was only moments into the Harvard-Dartmouth game, but Crimson fans were already fidgeting in their seats, secretly moaning, "Oh no, not again...
...Proposition is a Cambridge classic, so if you've missed it up to now, this weekend might be a good time to catch them. If you've seen them before, though, expect to be disappointed. For one thing, improvisational theater tends to pall after you've seen a particular group several times, since you inevitably begin to notice how much of their act isn't really improvised at all. If they're any good, in fact, the framework within which they improvise is probably pretty carefully and completely worked out. The first time I saw the Proposition, almost five years...
...heads of state turned up at Kampala. Three nations-Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana-boycotted the assemblage to protest Big Daddy's presence in the chair, and 24 others sent lesser delegations. The unexpected overthrow of Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon at mid-meeting cast another pall. Four participants -Congo's Marien Ngouabi, Gabon's Omar Bongo, Cameroon's Ahmadou Ahidjo and Niger's Seyni Kountché -quickly lit out for home. "Maybe they're not exactly afraid," commented one Arab delegate. "Just prudent...
...U.D.C. episode will cast a pall over the municipal bond market. The doubts raised by the U.D.C. crunch could have especially grave repercussions for the more than $6.3 billion of outstanding moral-obligation bonds is sued by similar public agencies in 30 states. Following the default, U.D.C. bond prices fell rapidly; some bonds sold for half their face value, and by week's end most other outstanding issues had fallen by more than $100 per $1,000 bond...