Word: cheerlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strauss's jovial persona is the kind of tonic the Democrats need in an otherwise cheerless time. Strauss, 54, is the striving son of a Texas dry-goods merchant. He has been an adept moneymaker both for himself and the Democrats; he is also a man who can-and often does-call someone a "sonabitch" without having to smile. It is the other person, in fact, who smiles or even laughs...
...plays the game in the old courtly way, making it a ritual as steeped in aristocratic value as the Japanese tea ceremony or the No drama. His young challenger, a fine player and engaging fellow, nevertheless embodies the raw modern spirit. His game is tense and cheerless, "an inexorable gnawing...
...this attention, the consumer has turned into something of a Scrooge. Even The Salvation Army is having trouble prying dimes out of him. In department stores, cash-register tapes for the Christmas season are running scarcely above last year's cheerless levels. The National Retail Merchants Association in November had predicted a rise of 6%. Then its officials took one look at the early returns and revised their forecast to a 3% or 4% gain. Considering inflation, that would amount to as much as a 3% drop in the volume of goods actually sold...