Word: dourness
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Britain's Minister of Fuel, dour Emanuel Shinwell, balefully noted that some capitalists were lifting up their heads again. Austin Motors' Leonard P. Lord had charged that the Government's February auto production estimate of 10,000 was 2,000 more than the truth. Government estimators were under orders to "paint a rosy picture," said Lord. To the Leeds Labor Council Shinwell made an answer which was Labor's frankest public statement of its attitude toward nationalization of industry...
During the war, Planemaker Donald Douglas half-seriously announced a grim postwar plan: "Shut the damned shop up" (TIME, Nov. 22, 1943). In Los Angeles last week able, dour Donald Douglas, still in business, told his 8,763 stockholders that the Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.: 1) had made a profit of $8,900,000 in 1945; 2) had a backlog of $219,000,000 in military and commercial orders; 3) could expect no profits...
Both Tory and Labor M.P.s hastened to agree. At the same time Attlee warned that the burden of working out internal unity and stable government rested on the Indians themselves. A familiar reservation and reminder was heard from the Tory side. Said dour Sir John Anderson, former Governor of Bengal: so long as Britain is responsible for law-enforcement in India, she has "a predominant right" to a voice in framing the new constitution...
Drowned in Giggles. Spectators were convulsed. George's own high-pitched chuckle frequently rang out. Even dour Senator Robert Taft occasionally rubbed his balding pate and smiled...
...fill the overseas job left vacant by Eisenhower, the Army picked 62-year-old Air General Joseph T. McNarney, dour, black-browed Irishman who served most of the war as Marshall's deputy in Washington. To take Nimitz' place, the Navy picked Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, able, unspectacular commander of the famous Fifth Fleet. As Spruance stepped in, his spectacular alternate in the Pacific campaign-Admiral "Bull" Halsey, boss of the Third Fleet-hauled down his flag, remarked, "I deem it necessary for men of my age [63] to step aside," and walked ashore, headed for private life...