Word: palling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World Perspective. The primary U.S. objective, said the President, was the achievement of world peace with justice and the removal of "the pall of fear." The President reviewed his meeting with the Communist leaders at Geneva last July and the ill-fated foreign ministers' conference in October. "The Soviet leaders are not yet willing to create the indispensable conditions for a secure and lasting peace," he said. "Communist tactics against the free nations have shifted in emphasis from reliance on violence ... to reliance on division, enticement and duplicity." The U.S., therefore, needed to maintain and strengthen its collective security...
Jerry bristles at the suggestion of some CBS executives and entertainers that the Martin & Lewis team would soon pall on audiences if they appeared regularly on a TV series. "What makes CBS so damned brilliant?" he demanded. "Any imbecile knows that saturation is the misery of the entertainment world. We've made it an event when we go on. Mr. and Mrs. Viewer can't tune us in any time they choose. The greats of the business...
When her love began to pall...
...Gallieni, a one-mile thoroughfare between Saigon's European quarter-which was ringed off from the shouting by the big French-colonial army-and the cluttered Chinese suburb of Cholon. The nub of the action was a cream-colored Vietnamese headquarters, defended by 100 Nationalists beneath a darkening pall of smoke. From there, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin reported...
...Pall Mall, Tenn., World War I Hero Alvin York, still abed from a stroke suffered last year, was struck by a Government claim that he owes $85,442 in income tax on the $134,338 he earned in royalties from the film Sergeant York, based on his life. But the Medal of Honor man who captured 132 German prisoners singlehanded argued that his heroism is a capital asset, claimed the right to pay the straight 26% capital-gains tax rate, just as President Eisenhower did for his World War II memoirs...