Word: palling
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Herbert strains the budding romance by planting dead cats on the widower's doorstep with tags addressed to "Old Runt" and "Old Weasel." When such shenanigans pall, Herbert has his daughter read to him about Nazi atrocities at Belsen. "Lunatics are all about us," he warns...
...right to investigate whatever it pleases, and 2) Communists should be barred from teaching. Nor was anyone in a state of panic. And yet, the climate of the campuses had already begun to change. The investigations, said Dean Milton Muelder of Michigan State College, "have cast a pall, a shadow, creating doubt as to how far scholars can now go in discussing controversial issues...
...long, lavender coat and jeweled turban, stalking through the rubble of wartime London with her inevitable, restless, prying umbrella, authoritative as a royal mace, or the sight of the old Queen pottering in & out of antique shops, slipping into the back row of suburban movie theaters, sweeping down Pall Mall in her towering automobile. "I think they call it a Daimler," she told a bemused G.I. to whom she gave a ride...
...first calls went to a loyal McPherson alumna, Rozella Switzer, the town's Democratic postmistress. Rozella, a widow in her 40's, runs an efficient post office, smokes Pall Malls, drinks an occasional bourbon & coke, likes politics and people. She was curious about the African students and invited them over. Two nights later they sat comfortably around her living room, sipping coffee, browsing through her books, listening to her records-and talking...
...year-old son, who shrieked, "Bru! Bru!" (Burn! Burn!). Seized with a dreadful presentiment, the mother dipped holy water and sprinkled the stranger. The Devil-for it was he-turned hideous, jumped to the ceiling, then ran right through the stone wall and vanished in a sulphurous pall. Outside, where the horse had stood, the snow was melted for 100 yards around...