Word: gloom
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Bleak House. "This" was both too little and too much. It was not enough to give Britons a dramatic sense of back-to-the-wall fighting. Yet the new restrictions, coming on top of all the others, deepened the gloom that hung over the island. John Strachey's Food Ministry slashed several rations. It was worse than the bleak wartime year of 1941. Then a Briton was allowed a shilling and a half's worth of meat a week; now, a shilling's worth. Then he got twelve ounces of sugar; now, eight. Then, eight ounces...
Another merchant of gloom was Wall Street Analyst John H. Lewis,* a historical parallelist, who had made his reputation in July 1946 by announcing a bear market just as the market started down. Lewis, not willing to let go of his bear's tail, last week insisted that the market was still a bear. By the fourth quarter, he said, when exports fall off and more & more of the deferred consumer demand at home has been satisfied, a "real slump" will come; the "present bear market" will be intensified...
...Yarmouth County shook herself, peered through the enveloping gloom to see what had hit her, felt gingerly for her wound. She found it. One of the Micmac's capstans was stuck like a burr in her side...
...those hours of gloom...
...Between the U.S. and China there is at present sad lack of contact and understanding. Communists and those they use . . . have succeeded in making Americans with some notable exceptions believe that China is only chaos, gloom, and doubt. ... So pervasive and persistent is that feeling that Americans prefer to sit back and wait, so far as China is concerned...