Word: palling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School may find cause to admire the fiscal prudence with which Engelhard built his father's $20 million nest egg into a quarter-billion dollar empire. In his non-corporate life, however, Engelhard was not exactly the thrifty sort. His expenditures on life's luxuries make his philanthropic pittances pall by comparison. Before he died, Engelhard owned nine homes on four continents, including a hunting lodge in the Transvaal, and a mansion outside Johannesburg...
Princeton then came out and scored eight unanswered points at the start of the second half to put the game out of reach as a pall you could cut with a knife fell over the once-raucous capacity crowd...
...ONLY MAJOR problem with this stirring masterpiece is the Tavinis' occasionally heavy-handed use of symbolism to hammer home a point. During the funeral procession for a slain Mafioso, pall-bearer Gavino fantasizes a statue of his father in place of the sculpted saint perched atop the coffin. And if that does not constitute laying it on with a trowel, consider this: before settling down to the business of lovemaking, a young man persuades his partner to smoke his cigar with the ash end in her mouth. A hint of things to come, perhaps...
...boom extended after lift-off on schedule, but apparently failed to lock. That complicated the mission and cast an initial pall over an impressive $500 million program. Voyager 2 is to be followed on Sept. 1 by Voyager 1, a similar spacecraft so numbered because it will reach Jupiter four months earlier than Voyager 2 on a different trajectory...
Phony Soldiers. Little by little, though, the fun seemed to pall. Sigi complained of sleeping badly and rushed back from his vacations in Austria and Italy. One day, after a routine check uncovered a $125 error in one of his books, a tense Schmidt tooled off to the nearest police station. There he told an incredible story: he had invented thousands of phony troops, put them on the battalion's books, and then drawn their very real pay-some $500,000. Since he had logged in his first "recruits," many of whose names Schmidt picked out of the phone...