Word: gloom
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Through all the gloom, King George and his band of wealthy discords kept winning. And the fans of York loved them and cheered for them. Even though the players were not true men of York, they fought valiantly for their land. And still the scribes wrote of the evilness of rich King George. But no one stopped to say, "Ah, but George has kept the winning way in fair York...
...strengths and weaknesses of the book are those of the Backhousian method. Rather than patiently penetrating the mysteries of history step by painstaking step, as would a professional Sinologue, both the historian and the historian he is writing about prefer to assault the gloom head on, neglecting details and looking only for the general pattern that emerges. For Backhouse this meant creating new details each time he needed to give credence to an already created story. For Trevor-Roper this means emphasizing certain old details in order to give credence to a new story...
...thriller of the day, Ditzler hit a lob deep in the backhand corner for an outright winner to clinch the second doubles for her and partner Miller, 6-3, 3-5, 6-1, in almost total blackness. The other two doubles contests were suspended because of the gloom...
...calendar, but it was not a happy new year in Israel. In Egypt, meanwhile, a smiling President Anwar Sadat declared that it was the best gift he had received for Bairam, the joyful Muslim festival that follows the month-long Ramadan fast. The gift-and the cause of Israeli gloom -was a U.S. policy statement issued by the State Department to the effect that Palestinians "must be represented" at any reconvened Geneva peace talks. Coming on the eve of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's visit to Washington this week, the statement was clearly intended as a warning to Israel...
...most expressive backs in all history. His hands became a legend, and he kept them in the spotlight, even when his players were in penumbral gloom. In his mind's ear he heard orchestral sounds never made before-and proceeded to make them. "Music appeals to me for what can be done with it," Leopold Stokowski once remarked. By that he meant that he knew better than Beethoven or Brahms how instruments should sound, and that Johann Sebastian Bach surely would have loved his lush orchestral transcriptions of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For such arrogance...