Word: palled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early accident cast a pall over the afternoon's proceedings and made Dartmouth's win in the men's meet and Brown's in the women's--and Harvard's second-place finish to both--relatively inconsequential...
SHOPPING: Upmarket Men's tailors line Savile Row; the most fashionable stores have a branch on nearby Bond Street. More reasonably priced, countryside togs can be found at Hardy Brothers on Pall Mall...
...oversee kill creative thinking and foster a real dislike of learning. The grownups who think homework is good for kids are the same ones who think lima beans and Brussels sprouts are great. It breaks my heart that dinner at my house is usually macaroni and cheese and a pall of gloom. LAUREN ARNOLD Mountain View, Calif...
...early gene-therapy trial for cystic fibrosis, inflammation caused by the viral carrier, an altered adenovirus, was so severe that the FDA ordered a halt to the effort, casting a pall over all the other trials--and the field in general. More problems plagued the researchers. In many cases the implanted genes failed to "turn on," or express themselves, and were unable to command the cells to produce the protein they were supposed to provide. Some operated for a while and then inexplicably shut down...
Sophomore forward Dan Clemente's recurring ankle problems cast a pall over an otherwise soporific Crimson...