Word: palled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those things that happened. Anthony challenged this guy to fight, the guy brought along two friends, and when the going got rough, one of them pulled a knife," a classmate now recalls. But at the time, the school closed for the week, and the incident cast a pall over the idea of mixing the two divergent groups...
...nonjus-ticiability" to restore the deadline extension. We would welcome that decision. But even the most favorable ruling will be of little use if the deadline for ratification--this June 30--passes without the support of an additional three states. The Court must act quickly to erase the pall cast over the extension by lower court judge Marion Callister--whose decision appears politically motivated...
...forces have recently rallied and declared a final offensive. Students are taking terms off, housewives are going on the road, and backers are raising a good deal of money to try to sway three more states. This final drive should be allowed to proceed without the pall of a possible judicial rejection...
...them sit about Arthur's office, playing with "I think that you think so" lines, we are left to wonder whether Mamet wants to make us seriously believe that writers behave in this childishly parasitic way. On the other hand, perhaps this is an insight to the current pall over the entire profession, as best exemplified by the work itself...
...convinced that nonaligned countries are ready to tilt our way, despite all the surface squabbles and the complaints about U.S. leadership or lack of it. The desires for freedom, for enough food and for economic opportunity run stronger than ideology at every latitude. Soviet military might has cast its pall across the globe. It is the season for inspired moderation, and all the signs indicate that the second Al Haig is carrying the banner...