Word: dour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over the dour objection of six thrifty Scots members, who wanted to slice the amount by half, the House of Commons voted to give Princess Margaret an annual pocket-money allowance...
President and Mme. Vincent Auriol cast their ballots in downtown Paris amid the pop of photographers' flashbulbs, then hustled off to the Auteuil horse races. Grey-suited De Gaulle, as dour as usual, voted in a schoolhouse in his home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. Premier Henri Queuille, symbol of the Third Force, voted before TV and newsreel cameras in his constituency in central France, then flew back to Paris to watch the count...
...dressing room of Antwerp's Sportpalais, Trainer Harry ("Papa") Wiley had unpacked the bag, spread a clean linen sheet over the rubbing table, laid out the clean woolen socks, the purple trunks, the boxing shoes with new laces. Robinson gave one dour look at the preparations and grumbled: "It's cold here...
...race, according to happy Dodger supporters, it was now just a matter of the Dodgers' winning margin. Even Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen, after watching his team win its sixth straight and stretch its early-season lead to 6½ games, abandoned the manager's traditional attitude of dour dismay to admit: "The team that beats us can win the pennant-but nobody is going to beat...
...patient who had been "dead" for 82 minutes was walking up & down the second-floor surgical ward of Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo last week, as though nothing had happened. A tall, dour-faced man of 59, he stood erect and stepped right out in his sloppy hospital slippers. He did not talk much, but that was part of the mental condition which brought him to the hospital three years...