Word: gloom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been dancing in her stocking feet, she was suddenly overcome by melancholy and started out toward the Hudson. A friend calmly told her to put on her shoes first. She did, and after driving up and down the river most of the night, she shook off her gloom...
...ECONOMY. In the wake of his gloom-ridden State of the Union and Economic messages, the President asked Congress for specific legislation to solve the dollar crisis and to raise the minimum wage from $1 to $1.25. He also indicated that he would formally propose an extension of unemployment benefits. One significant omission: a request for a tax cut. At his press conference, the President explained that a tax cut would not be considered before April, when the Administration would make another check on which way the economy was moving. But even if conditions worsened, Kennedy indicated, he might well...
President Kennedy's magnificent inaugural address is a stirring example of how one strong voice can rouse free nations from a state of pessimistic gloom to a confident enthusiastic optimism. It won for us in the last world war; may we have more and more...
...Mutual Insurance Co. of Hartford, furthered his campaign last week for Connecticut's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in 1962. Speaking to Young Republicans, he took the trouble carefully to disassociate himself from Brother Joe's "enthusiasm for the Democratic ticket" and declared: "I am not a prophet of gloom and doom like my brother, Joseph-whose keeper...
Beneath Berman's gentle, familial humor and his brilliantly controlled voice, there is the constant hint of tension. Like a sort of Everymanic-depressive, Berman offstage-and sometimes even Berman onstage-rapidly moves from patience to anger, from caution to bravado, from hilarity to gloom. Every line of his rough-weathered face ("Isn't it awful," he says, "to be 34 and look 90?") is on the defensive. He blinks, cracks his knuckles and pulls his hair as he chases worries across his mind: Will the talking records choke off his popularity in clubs? Should he order...