Word: gloom
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...jumbled gloom of the storeroom, a gentle Negro complained of people's incurable acquisitiveness. "They think because they work for U.N. they can get everything. Just 'Gimme, gimme' all day long." In a velvet-draped chamber, visitors admired a model of the future U.N. headquarters (one of the few tangible signs that U.N. had a future). Said an exquisite young lady: "Oh, I think it's going to be fascinating." Then she pointed questioningly at a drab expanse on the model's edge. "Oh that," explained her guide. "That's New York...
...health talks are an adroit mixture of sharply worded advice and blunt humor. "Life," he explains to his ten million listeners, "is a matter of moments that are lost and bowels that are distended." His descriptions of ailments are calculated to shock hypochondriacs out of their introspective gloom ("Just think of a boil-as round as a football, as red as a raspberry, as tender as the treacly smile of a lovesick maiden...
Hold Thou Thy Cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies; Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee: In life, in death, 0 Lord, abide with...
...experts ignored Leahy's coachly gloom ("We are not equipped.'We do not have the weapons"), made the Irish an 18-point favorite. They were mainly impressed by Notre Dame's trigger-armed Quarterback Johnny Lujack. But no sooner had the game begun in jampacked Notre Dame stadium than Leahy uncovered another weapon: a Fighting Irish player who was actually Irish. It took Halfback Terry Brennan exactly 21 seconds to take the opening kick-off and scamper 97 yards for a touchdown. That took the spark out of Army, although they fought hard and had carefully memorized...
From overhead, Christian Democratic planes showered leaflets. At one meeting, thousands of clenched fists shook angrily at the dark sky; men picked up the fluttering leaflets and, without a glance at their words, lighted them with matches-a hundred little torches blazing in the gloom. The Church helped Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats as never before. Said one priest from the pulpit: "He who fails to vote commits a most grievous sin. Catholics must see that Christ's cross and not the hammer & sickle rises above the Campanile of Capitol Hill...