Word: gloom
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Earlier in the meeting Capehart had read from the booklet and then shifted his attack to accuse Galbraith of being a "gloom and doom adviser to Adlai Stevenson...
...ever be put in motion unless Communist aggression is halted where it is on the military march. Dulles had good reasons for refusing to state categorically whether the U.S. would or would not defend the Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, but his refusal plunged the Nationalists into gloom and considerably dimmed the bright new hopes he had kindled in the rest of Asia...
...Mantas in vast flocks flap silently through pale and gloom, a nightmare vision as of witches on their way to the evil sabbath...
...similar richness of wording when she says: ". . . the lamp chimney around the urged-on lamp flame itself, spurting threads of itself and smoke stinkingly upward toward the ceiling, crimsonly stuttered inside the gloom it made like an evil tongue...
Another bright spot in the gloom is Griff Winthrop, from Canandaigua, N.Y. As Canandaigua Academy captain last year he swam everything but the breast stroke. For the Yardlings, he specializes in the 150-yard individual medley, where he has turned in a 1:44.6. Brooks professes high hopes...