Word: palling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panama, as in Viet Nam, the Law of Unintended Consequences hangs over U.S. policy this week like a pall of smoke after the explosion of a misplaced bomb...
...months of rioting cast a pall on Christian celebrations of Easter...
...moment at least, Apple has succeeded in casting a pall over the hundreds of independent software developers whom IBM is counting on to write programs that run in conjunction with the Microsoft product. Suddenly, they have to worry about whether the programs they are working on will be declared illegal. "For years Microsoft has been telling us Windows was safe," says - Philippe Kahn, president of Borland International, which has already spent nearly $1 million developing an information-retrieval program based on Windows. "It's like waking up and finding out that your partner might have AIDS...
...anticipation of this weekend's home games against Cornell (Friday) and Colgate (Saturday) could not lift the pall that befell the Crimson locker room last night. Losing is hard. Losing again and again--as Harvard has at Boston Garden in the Beanpot--makes you want put a truck-full of dynamite under the venerable structure...
Some Western analysts, however, had growing doubts about whether delinkage and the zero option would necessarily be an unmitigated blessing. A veteran intelligence official cast a pall over an interagency meeting in February by administering what he called a "heavy dose of reality therapy." Consider, he said, the danger posed by a new Soviet ICBM -- the SS-25, a mobile, three- stage, intercontinental version of the two-stage, intermediate-range SS-20. "Not a single one of the SS-20s that Gorbachev will be giving up can hit the U.S., and not a single SS-25 is affected...