Word: palled
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...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...
Anything not on his resume that he would like people to know about: I worked as a pall-bearer...My brother worked for a funeral home--they were really busy one day and needed extra pallbearers. After doing it once, I realized how good a job it is. I mean, no one complains...
...routine was familiar on most days: we'd talk about the game at hand or sports in general for a while, and then silence would rejoin our conversation as he slowly faded to sleep--it mattered not what hour of day it was. The ever-present pall of cigarette smoke in the room portended that his sleep would only come in short bursts; and how fitful it would be, a loud, methodical hacking cough spoiling both his rest and my conscience. Could I not somehow find a way to stop him poisoning himself? The distillery-sized...
...periodic flooding that has claimed 500,000 lives in this century. More important, its production of clean hydroelectric power will reduce China's reliance on coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, which now supplies 75% of the country's energy needs. The burning of coal has cast a pall of pollution over major Chinese cities and helped make pulmonary disease the nation's leading cause of death...
...world's most torturous-looking chair, the Sackler's new show, American Art at Harvard: Cultures and Contexts, provides no answers. It does, however, remind us that Harvard's museums are more than a place to temporarily dispose of loved ones when Parent's Weekend begins to pall. The exhibit raises a labyrinth of confounding problems that transcend the hothouse world of museums to intrude on our faith in the definition of American culture...