Word: gloom
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...predictions of relative doom and gloom mounted, retailers throughout the land cut prices, optimistically convincing themselves that Santa would yet arrive in the form of a last-minute buying surge that would cause plenty of jingle at the cash registers, after all. As it happened, they were absolutely right. On the days just before the holiday, shoppers invaded the stores in welcome numbers. Total national retail sales during Christmas week were up 3% over the previous week, and 11% over the corresponding week...
...concerts a year. Heath described himself as netting a little less each year than a New York sanitation worker. Social and financial exigencies aside, human tensions have doubtless taken a toll. At a post-concert supper, the four guests of honor mingled politely, then submerged into separate pockets of gloom...
...funds for expanding astronomical research began to dry up. That left some 800 graduate students working on doctorates in astronomy with little hope of future employment; there are fewer than 50 astronomy job-openings per year in the U.S. "The handwriting was on the wall, and there was considerable gloom and doom among young astronomers," recalls Craig Chester, 32. "We decided that it's better to hang together than hang separately...
...state of the nation's morale and confidence in the future, was markedly depressed. Some 79% of those polled were very or somewhat pessimistic, down only slightly from 81% in May, which was several months before Richard Nixon resigned as President. The figures indicate that the national gloom then over Watergate has been replaced by despair about inflation...
...Kennedy International Airport. This time the perpetrator was not a freaked-out Fischer but a small boy who discovered the skittish grand master hiding in an airport bar and led a charge of newsmen to the scene. Bobby bolted out the door, across a highway and vanished into the gloom. His handlers meanwhile, fending off the reporters with kicks and body blocks, were approached by a cop who got right to the heart of the matter. "Who," he wanted to know, "is Bobby Fischer...