Word: palled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst possibility is that the immense pall could lower temperatures in the Indian subcontinent four to five degrees, disrupting the monsoon rains that are essential to crops for the nations of that area. "If this goes on until spring and summer, it will be a direct threat to their food supply, which is already marginal," says Anne Ehrlich, a Sierra Club expert...
...argue travel in dark limousines, not carriages, but they go over the same routes and to the same places. The agencies that must make war if it comes -- in this age, the Pentagon, chiefly -- are as before swept up in a riptide of dread, a mixture of the pall of death and the exhilaration of using the awesome machine they have designed. The Pentagon last week worked around the clock, its corridors filled with wary brass and eager arms merchants...
Dennis Lamp (3-5), Boston's fourth pitcher, was unable to hold Chicago in the 11th after the Red Sox failed to score with the bases loaded and two out in the 10th against Donn Pall (3-5). Ellis Burks flied out to end the inning after an intentional walk to Wade Boggs...
...those who try to make meaningful connections -- often through video dating services, party lines and personals ads -- the risks of modern love are greater than ever. AIDS casts a pall over a generation that fully expected to reap the benefits of the sexual revolution. Responsibility is the watchword. Only on college campuses do remnants of libertinism linger. That worries public-health officials, who are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly genital warts. "There is a high degree of students who believe oral contraception protects them from the AIDS virus. It doesn't," says Wally Brewer, coordinator...
...just, Carpenter has a singularly unwieldy stage to work with. It seems appealing enough at the start of the play, with its mottled sky, its rich backdrops and proliferation of Druidic carvings, but the self-conscious surrealism begins to pall before long. In addition, the props are all concentrated at the back and sides of the stage, leaving an expanse of unrelieved, barren floor space in the middle...