Word: palled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...future of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He blames not only the Arabs but also the intransigents on the Israeli side for blocking any opportunity of a breakthrough. In the midst of this week's Sunday morning Cabinet meeting, in a move that cast a pall over the whole negotiating process, Dayan translated his anger into action by abruptly resigning. He openly attributed his step to "my dissatisfaction with the way the [West Bank] autonomy talks are being conducted...
...Skylab showered down on Australia and the surrounding sea last week, the space shuttle was still in Florida, months behind launch schedule. Meanwhile, high above the earth, two orbiting Soviet cosmonauts headed toward a new record (140 days) for living in space. Normally, all this would have cast a pall over this week's celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the first lunar landing. But beleaguered space agency officials could take pride in one spectacular performance: that of their wide-ranging robots, which are scattered over much of the solar system and are turning 1979 into the year...
Raids, retaliations and settlements cast a pall over negotiations...
...tight blue jeans and tooled leather boots approaches not to buy but to gab. "Say, Jim. You want a full military funeral when Kerr-McGee gets done with you? We'll have to find you a lead coffin so you don't contaminate the cemetery. How many pall bearers you figure it takes to haul a lead coffin...
...another part of the capital, a pall of mourning hung over the former embassy of the newly derecognized Republic of China. There, a disconsolate crowd of about 300 people, many actually crying, gathered to watch as the flag of Taiwan was lowered for the last time. Demonstrations for and against recognition of Peking were held in Washington, San Francisco and New York City. Two thousand Chinese Americans marched along the winding streets of Manhattan's Chinatown in support of the Peking government, while 5,000 angry protesters held their own parade, shouting "Long live Taiwan...