Word: palled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convinced that many of the faint, fuzzy patches of light that dot the night sky are really huge clumps of interstellar gas that act as cosmic nurseries -- the places where new stars are born. The glow comes from infant suns lighting up the clouds, like fireworks illuminating their surrounding pall of smoke. "Fireworks" is an apt description, since the prevailing theory among astronomers is that star birth must be a cataclysmically violent process. But without detailed pictures of what's going on-something that is impossible to get from ground-based telescopes-the scientists have had no conclusive...
...four pall-bearers removed Ho's coffin from the chapel...
...over coincided with a public burial atMilton Cemetery. His pall bearers included fivestate troopers and two friends since childhood...
...Surgeon General's warning. As a nation, we are generally willing to conceded that cigarette smoking, although a personal right, is not necessarily permissible in public places. Such regulations have, however, been slower to affects our European neighbors. And who could question the King's right to smoke a Pall Mall whenever he so chooses...
Four years on the shores of the Charles give one a long time to ponder questions of great metaphysical importance. Inevitably, Harvard first-years spend countless evenings discussing the afterlife, the nature of truth, and the congenital incompetence of University Health Services. But by senior year, the pall of alienation and anomie have descended upon the residents of the college, and discussion turns to more mundane and materialistic subjects: law school, investment banking, and fellowships...