Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Down to Up. With these decisions made beforehand in London, and endorsed in Lisbon by the NATO council, the gloom lifted almost too easily. In Lisbon's sunlight it was hard to face the big, sobering fact: that NATO's decisions are only decisions on paper...
Treading Water. Despite the slowdown, there was no general sense of gloom. But with retail sales lagging 6% below the scare-buying period of 1951, there was a feeling of caution, except where big bargains were offered (see below). The trouble was, said the Commerce Department, that people were unaccountably saving money at a record peacetime rate of $20 billion a year, instead of spending it. Said a Chicago businessman:"People are scared to move out and do things. There is too much insecurity over Korea and the election in people's minds. Everybody is buttoning...
...Gloom settled thicker in the Loop. NBC axed 15 minutes off another "Chicago" TV show, the intelligent fantasy...
Last summer, the men behind the Eisen-hower-for-President campaign were supremely confident. Once Ike agreed to accept, they said, neither Taft nor gloom of night could stop his nomination. "We don't need any organizations or managers," said former Senator Harry Darby of Kansas. "The only question is the general's availability." By October, the Ikemen had conceded the need for organization. But as late as December, the campaign manager, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., was still calm. Said he: "There's plenty of time...
During the nine-day period between the King's death and his burial, most Britons had had their meed of public grief. "There is now a widespread feeling that the formal solemnity is being overdone," observed the Manchester Guardian. "Gloom, gloom, gloom drips forth from the BBC," complained London's Daily Express. But as the King's body lay in state at Westminster, Londoners felt a strong sense of history and a deep compulsion to share it. "I said to myself, Elsie, you put on your hat, I said, and take a bus and go up there...