Word: gloom
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...play Waiting for Godot, this intellectual razzle-dazzle bewildered theatergoers, delighted highbrows and kept critics lunging desperately for underlying meanings. Malone Dies will furrow many another critical brow, but few will quarrel with the author's description of his hero's basic condition: "molten gloom...
Professional Gloom. Pitt was obviously unready for the hefty, hopped-up Mountaineers. West Virginia, on the other hand, had been pointing for Pitt since spring. Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis had taken a raw squad of untried recruits, drilled them ruthlessly, taught them that they must not play Pitt's brand of power football. Instead, he told them, they must move faster, confuse and frustrate the Panthers' possession type of game...
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom...
...Liberals were genuinely worried about the outcome of the next election. Practically every major newspaper in the country, Liberal and Tory alike, condemned them. Tory Leader George Drew and CCF (Socialist) Leader M. J. Coldwell openly dared them to call an election, and the challenge was weakly declined. Gloom had spread even to the Liberal Cabinet. Said a top Liberal minister: "This could destroy the government...
...Thailand every cloud, even one so dark as the ill-omened Year of the Goat, has a silver-and sometimes a gold-lining. Just as the astronomers had predicted, the Year of the Goat was bad. Day after day it plunged Thailand into gloom with the revelation of one misfortune after another: two solar eclipses in one year, a holiday bus crash in which 22 people died, the deaths of a number of prominent Thais. Only last week, on the very eve of the goat's departure, a live bomb accidentally fell from an air force plane and killed...