Word: palling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...petty and manipulative, was no more reprehensible than that of many other student politicians then and now. It is difficult to believe, as Caro does, that Johnson's life was entirely a record of "viciousness and cruelty, . . . all-encompassing personal ambition. . . and aggressiveness." Indeed, Caro seeks to cast a pall even over the noblest incident in Johnson's youth, his student-teaching in the Cotulla barrio, interpreting the future President's success in the job as evidence of his need to create situations in which he was in complete control...
...these developments, taken together, have cast a distinct pall over White's administration. After occupying office for 15 often tumultuous years, the liberal mayor may face his roughest fight ever if he seeks re-election to a fifth term next November. "I will not retreat an inch," insists White. "I will be heard...
...funereal pall hung over the wood-paneled conference room of the headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party in Bonn. Even Chancellor Helmut Kohl's characteristic good humor had given way to a gloomy frown as he contemplated the party's surprising defeat the previous Sunday in local elections in the city-state of Hamburg. It was the last test of strength before the national elections Kohl plans to hold on March 6 in hopes of winning a mandate for his three-month-old conservative coalition government. Said the conservative daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "The result is both...
Nuclear weapons are the issue of the day, casting a long pall over our lives. That pall will only begin to recede once enough governments and local institutions voice their fears. Tonight's open meeting should prove a fertile way for Harvard to decide how to voice its own, and whether a symbolic repudiation of nuclear arms investments is the right way to do it. Be there...
...holding of the American hostages had cast a pall over my own life and over the American people since Nov. 4, 1979. Although I was acting as President, I also had deep private feelings. The hostages sometimes seemed like part of my own family. I knew them by name, was familiar with their careers, had read their letters written from their prisons in Iran. More than anything else, I wanted those prisoners to be free...