Word: palled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More importantly, the Democrats simply will reinforce their current image of disunity and disorganization. The pall of the Carter Administration will extend to the darkest corners of the beer stands in Madison Square Garden: Liberty, Justice and Incompetence for all. The president, who hopes to mend fences with Kennedy when the campaign ends, may find it difficult even to shake hands with Ted at the convention podium...
...cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb: "That man doesn't walk, he crawls." The Senator choked up and tears rolled down his cheeks. He claimed he was not weeping, but the damage was done. "It cast a pall over the remainder of our effort," Muskie said later. "We could never quite get over it." He won the New Hampshire primary, but the press decreed that he had not done well enough; ultimately he lost the nomination to George McGovern...
...awoke the next morning in sterile Stillman to gray and white. Safely sheltered away from the outside's pall, he rolled over and roalled their whispers. Disease had attacked his glands, his spleen, his liver. Is he a drinker? they asked down the hall. No, his friends answered. But could we please have gamma globulin shots just to make sure? You won't get it, don't worry, his friends were told. He hoped his friends wouldn't get "it." Elsie's could not be seen from his bed, but no matter; the roast beef specials would wait, wait...
...Pine Pall...
...musician is a critic's dream, Pollini the man is an interviewer's nightmare. He is agreeable and fairly fluent in English, but too shy to traffic in epigrams and anecdotal revelations. Wearing dark-rimmed glasses that are never seen onstage, he sits there, nervously smoking Pall Malls and tapping his foot, turning away one question after another. His ultimate artistic goals? "[Puff.] I try to do in the best possible way this music. That is all." What about his reputation for radical politics? During the Viet Nam War, wasn't he hissed and shouted...