Word: palled
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...struck. The FBI would issue an alert carefully hedged with disclaimers about the sources' credibility and lack of specific targets and timing. The color of the alert level would stay where it was, at "yellow." Despite these precautions, the warning, issued about 1:30 p.m. Friday, cast a pall over the stock market during afternoon trading and provoked more complaints about vague, useless security warnings...
...royal deaths, of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, will doubtless cast a pall on the Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of Elizabeth II's reign. Still, early indications from the palace suggest that the celebrations will continue more or less as planned. The Queen Mother would have wanted it that way. More than that, she undoubtedly would have wanted to be a part of them...
...gruesome accidents on the World Cup circuit this season - the death of French super-giant slalom champion R?gine Cavagnoud after a practice-run collision and a crash that left 22-year-old Swiss racer Silvano Beltrametti a paraplegic - have highlighted the dangers of ski racing and cast a somber pall over what these athletes refer to as the "white circus...
...holy city of Qom - have been arrested and imprisoned over the years for supporting the cleric's opposition to the Islamic regime. With Shirazi's death, the saga of state intimidation and years of house arrest seemed over. But special police in camouflage gear stormed the funeral procession, beat pall-bearers and stole the Ayatollah's corpse, which fell from its coffin twice during the scuffle. "If it's true, it will be among the blackest moments in the Islamic Republic's history," whispered one aghast cleric in Tehran. Black-clad mourners filled Qom's Chaharmardan Street as they proceeded...
...Ring was first released, literary critic Edmund Wilson assailed Tolkien for creating polarized characters—characters that were either good or evil, and nothing in between. Sauron and his servants are the utter embodiment of evil, with no goal other than to dominate the world under a pall of darkness. Frodo, Gandalf and Aragorn, the protagonists of the novel, have no wish other than to see Middle Earth live in peace and are willing to sacrifice themselves to attain that goal...