Word: gloom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mining Oilfields. In chancelleries and countinghouses nearly everywhere, officials fear economic crisis leading to political instability. The evidence of this gloom was clear and plentiful last week. The price of shares on the stock exchanges continued to plunge?not only on Wall Street but also in London, Paris and other major cities. In Washington, a pall of pessimism hung over the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Representatives of more than 120 nations listened attentively to cataclysmic predictions that they would have dismissed immediately a year or two ago. The atmosphere was such that sober...
...days ago he thumbed through a copy of a sermon given out in the Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids, by Duncan Littlefair, a pastor who has been genially opposed to Ford's political theology for 30 years. It was a shaft of light in the pardon gloom that spread over Ford's enlightened beginning...
Long Queues. Such gloom is widespread, reports TIME'S Herman Nickel. "Surveys reveal that well over 1 million Britons [out of a total population of 56 million] now express a firm intention of emigrating; 4.5 million are considering it. There are long queues waiting for immigration permits outside the Canadian and Australian High Commissions. An exodus of the sizable American community has already begun...
...naked under their clothes, blood coursing under their skins, all of whose exposed heartbeats together would drown out the united voices of the machines." The pictorial result was a labored and rather masochistic fortissimo, executed in the belief that feeling was all: jagged lines, dissonant and fulgid colors, heavy gloom. The level of sophistication, except in Klee, Feininger, Schiele and occasionally Beckmann, was close to zero. Expressionism was a young man's movement, the creation (like Dadaism) of people in their...
...Cowboy. Such gloom can be overdone. Neither the U.S. nor the world can definitely be said to be in a recession yet. The 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development forecasts some real growth in most major countries for the rest of this year...