Word: palled
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Sophomore forward Dan Clemente's recurring ankle problems cast a pall over an otherwise soporific Crimson...
...Thankfully, no-one was. But the drunken English hooligan -- the kind of soccer parasite last seen on the streets of Turin in 1990 -- has reared his ugly head again. A pall has been cast over today's game, not to mention England's bid to host the World...
...music commentary to point out that at the time of the Beatles' first appearance on the Sullivan show, the U.S. was a country uniquely in need of some cheering up. The assassination of a young and charismatic President little more than two months earlier had cast a pall on the national mood; and of course there were rumors of war. Certainly the moment was propitious for the four lads from Liverpool...
...flashbacks to the Great Haze of 1997. In some ways this year's blazes, stoked by the drought caused by El Nino, have been even worse, spreading into remote reaches of the virgin rain forest. Since January, hundreds of fires have claimed 700,000 acres of woodland, casting a pall of smoke over the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak. While recent rains have quenched many of the fires, the situation remains volatile. Moreover, the whole world may feel the heat. The burning forests are adding tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere...
...inches of dust. The rich fertility of a million farms took to the air: 300,000,000 tons of soil billowing through the sky. Housewives in Des Moines could write their names in grime upon their table tops. Aviators had to climb 15,000 ft. to get above the pall...