Word: dourness
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There is just one place in the world where that is being done consistently and effectively-Northern Ireland's dour capital city of Belfast. At the Royal Victoria Hospital, Cardiologist James F. Pantridge combed the records and found that 60% of heart-attack deaths occurred within the first hour...
General William Westmoreland's Communist equivalent, General Nguyen Chi Thanh, 51, commander for Hanoi of all North Vietnamese and Viet Cong political and military activity in South Viet Nam, died last week of a heart attack, said Radio Hanoi. A stocky, dour, pro-Chinese Annamese, Thanh directed the war for the most part from a redoubt in Tay Ninh province near the Cambodian border, operating under the pseudonyms...
...dour and learned churchly diplomat, Vagnozzi suffered by comparison with his much admired predecessor, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, now the Vatican's Secretary of State. Privately, many American bishops complained that Vagnozzi took too active an interest in the internal affairs of the U.S. church. In 1963, for example, he persuaded several prelates to cancel speaking engagements of the radical-minded Swiss Theologian Hans Küng. Both before and after the Second Vatican Council, Vagnozzi delivered repeated speeches warning U.S. Catholics against imprudent hankerings for too much change. The apostolic delegate is also known to have expressed strong opinions...
...optimistic: "Recent events must have confirmed the white Rhodesians in their view that the British balance of payments is in a worse state than their own, and that it is from the British side that concessions are likely to come first." Nevertheless, Britain's policy appears to have dour long-range implications for the Rhodesian economy. Because of sanctions, general exports from Rhodesia in 1966 dropped by about $168 million. If this trend continues, the country will have to live on borrowed money, which it is seeking in ever-increasing amounts...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. Old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell's own witty account of his dour and dotty early life and career never explains-but does help people understand-why he is such a conundrum...