Word: palling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself, as distinguished from Pepsodent, belies his gags about his good friend. Last year Pepsodent paid $225,000 to finance Hope's supersuccessful Army camp tours (TIME, Sept. 20), a new high. (Jack Benny-also a smart man with a dollar-recently decided to leave Grape-Nuts for Pall Mall cigarets, where he too will get a budget for personal promotion.) The fact seems to be that a team like Luckman and Hope pays off both partners...
When other problems pall, General Wilson can consider that of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of his troops in Italy already have run into painful decisions on when a shrine ceases to be a shrine and becomes an enemy artillery observation post (see p. 56). When the Allies approach Rome the eyes of the Christian world inevitably will be upon them, asking the mute question whether the city and its priceless antiquities must be left in rubble...
...filthy, tattered flotsam of Calcutta's normal beggar population has always shocked the Westerner. Today thousands of refugees are streaming into the city from starving Bengal villages. Men, women & children swarm about hotel garbage cans, clawing hungrily over heaps of offal that spread a sickening pall of stench for blocks; Calcutta's hospitals, with beds for only a small percentage of the city's sick, report a score or more of starvation deaths daily. Private agencies feed 62,000 destitutes each day, cannot keep pace with the influx...
...pall was cast over a considerable portion of the class which arrived clad in Khaki when the categorical imperative was delivered decreeing the wearing of the gray. Most of this suffering minority would prefer that the warships be painted light brown...
...derricks, refineries, storage tanks and Tracking plants, the bombers dived dangerously low, within 500 ft. of the ground and often through flames from the fires. One Liberator was destroyed by a bomb blast. Behind them earth and air trembled, patterns of black smoke blossomed and merged into one massive pall...