Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glory in the Gloom. Yet John was no truckling politico. When he thought that the partisans were at fault in the Boston Massacre and that the accused British soldiery would not get a proper defense, he fearlessly risked his life and career to defend them against the charge of murdering five colonists in cold blood. By hard lawyer logic Adams forced the jury to acquit all except two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. Meanwhile, despite the side he had taken in the case, his townsmen elected him as representative to the legislature, even though he did not bother...
...well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration," he said in 1776. "Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which," added John very sensibly, "I trust in God We shall...
This week, the rejoicing turned to gloom. One of the world's best-guarded babies had disappeared. Bird-lovers feared that Little 38 had become a victim of some marauding animal...
...Over there" was the grey, stone-walled New York Stock Exchange. Inside, on the crowded trading floor, there was no gloom, only pent-up excitement. The huge cavern buzzed with talk of General Motors' new five-year contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The pact had been announced the day before, after the market closed, and traders now wondered how this testimonial to continued prosperity would affect the market...
...over the country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...