Word: dourness
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Agriculture: Carlos Montenegro, 40, pockmarked, dour, good hater and trickiest politico...
...game ended because first Russia and then the U.S. and Britain wanted it to end; because Turkey realized that the time had come to pay for postwar security. After the stimulus of the Big Three Conferences, the end of Turkey's game was a sobering anticlimax, a dour lesson in the realities which Europe still faces despite the promise of Teheran...
...extent of the dour "Old Bear's" unpopularity could easily be gauged. Month ago, Kentucky elected its first Republican Governor since 1927. But the G.O.P. failed by 229 votes to capture the Fourth District. Last week, the G.O.P. swept the Fourth by a 12,600 majority...
...handsome, confident Admiral began his task last month when he flew to Chungking. He consulted with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, bluntly asked for his advice on continental strategy, had an initial success such as no other British military leader had attained in China. Dour "Uncle Joe" Stilwell was also impressed. Stilwell will probably become deputy commander...
...Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...