Word: gloom
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...voice was familiar but the words sounded strange. Planemaker Donald Douglas, who has often spoken like a prophet of gloom, was making noises like an optimist. Said he last week: "Long-range prospects in the airline and aircraft manufacturing industries are excellent." Looking at his own business, Donald Douglas had reason to be cheerful. His Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc. had abandoned its plans to build the DC-7 Globemaster and the DC-8 Mixmaster. But it had started delivering its 52-passenger, four-motored DC-6, had orders for some $200 million worth of commercial and military planes...
...monsoon rain drummed on the roof of the two-story European-style house which stood (significantly) between Saigon's French and native quarters. Within, tiny (4 ft. 11 in.) Dr. Nguyen Van Thinh, President of Cochin China's Provisional Government, pondered his troubles in the sticky gloom...
...Holy Table. The brownstone exterior of young Rector Miller's new church matches the gloom within. Most noteworthy of its furnishings: instead of an altar, St. George's has a "Holy Table"-approachable from all sides by communicants. Adjacent to the church are three "outbuildings," two of them residences where young men & women starting careers in New York can get a room and two meals a day for $16.50 a week. The third, the parish house, teems with the activities of 17 parish organizations. One of its biggest projects: a medical clinic where two dentists, two doctors...
...miles clicked past, gloom lengthened like a shadow over the little group gathered in the President's private car. At Vernon, Ind., at Cincinnati, at Chillicothe, the train stopped briefly to pick up last-minute press bulletins. They only confirmed the radio news. There was no doubt about it: Harry Truman's Democratic Party was taking a terrific trouncing...
...ball on downs. Busalacchi crashed through to block the Winthrop fourth-down kick and once more Dudley was given a life on the Puritan 11. A penalty and alert Winthrop line play prevented a score and the game wound up with an exchange of pass interceptions in the deepening gloom...