Word: palled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Does the conflict in the South Atlantic cast a pall over the summit meetings...
...pall of smoke from the Sheffield had been clearly visible from the Hermes, where it brought a personal sense of loss to Fleet Commander Woodward. He was captain of the Sheffield from 1976 to 1978. There was another irony. While the Sheffield was being built at Barrow-in-Furness, England, a part of her hull was damaged in an industrial explosion. An identical type of destroyer, the Hercules, was being constructed alongside the damaged vessel, and the prospective owners, the Argentine government, generously offered to give the hull section intended for their ship to the British. The Hercules...
Casting a further pall over the British was the news that two more of its Sea Harriers were missing and presumed lost in the Falklands, the apparent victims of brutal South Atlantic weather conditions. The size of the carrier-based Harrier force was thus reduced from the initial 20 to at most 17. In a move to strengthen the task force, a group of 18 to 20 Harriers that were supposed to reach the Falklands by ship were instead ordered to fly to the combat zone from Ascension Island; they will be refueled in air, and most of them should...
...Warsaw, the riots erupted two days after more than 20,000 residents had marched through the capital's old city in a counterdemonstration aimed at the official May Day parade that was passing through the city's major thoroughfares. Anxious not to cast a pall on a sacred Communist holiday, the government ignored the protest. But when Poles reconvened for another demonstration on May 3, Constitution Day, the police had orders to break...
...millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day... I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...