Word: palled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showrooms around the U.S. last week, dealers were gloomy about the chance of losing their bestselling models and the prospect of a national walkout. "A strike puts a pall on the entire industry, not just GM," said Ronald Kelly, a Ford dealer in Stamford, Conn. After the tough years of the late 1970s and early 1980s, dealers once again face a sales slump. Those with low inventory are especially worried. Said Clara Benjamin, co-owner of Bay Chevrolet in Queens, N.Y.: "A strike is going to affect us very badly. We will be laying off help if this turns...
...Sandinistas as "not a political vacuum, but the air is being sucked out." Yet he also warned that "their decline is not yet marked by the rise of anyone else's fortunes." Under those conditions, the Sandinistas will probably remain in power for the foreseeable future, but the pall of gloom over Nicaragua is likely to grow deeper...
...told, the U.S. spent nearly $7 million to help organize the balloting and guarantee its fairness. Unfortunately, some of that aid contributed to the chaos that cast a pall over the vote. Determined to ensure a truly honest and foolproof election, El Salvador's central election commission ignored U.S. embassy warnings against the installation of high-tech computer voting procedures for a low-tech electorate (more than 40% of the eligible voters are illiterate). Summed up Jorge Rochac, the U.S.-educated consultant who served as overseer for the intricate voting system: "We have three miles of dirt road...
...beer and soda, the larder has only peanut butter and crackers, but coffee is perpetually on the boil. Kuralt favors the lived-in look: a blue blazer with a burn mark, a rumpled yellow sweater that strains over his stomach, gray flannels worn to slickness. He chain-smokes Pall Malls and eats lunch at hamburger joints or not at all. If TV news is glamorous, apparently no one has told Kuralt...
...Nuclear Free Cambridge referendum has cast a pall over an otherwise bright