Word: gloom
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London's blackout is dismal everywhere, but around Piccadilly it was horrible, with that special horror which the British put so well into stage and movie chillers, sometimes into real life. The slow footsteps of streetwalkers patrolling the gloom gave way to silence. They had not been afraid of Nazi bombs, but they were afraid of this...
...reputation of being a brave, hard working and intelligent candidate for the Air Force, of being kind to his wife and child. The magistrate postponed the hearing until next month to let things quiet down, and handsome Frederick Cummings went to a cell. Once more, in the gloom around Piccadilly Circus, the streetwalkers took up their patrol...
Could the people take it? Washington did not seem to think the people could. Army and Navy communiqués stressed good news, toned down bad. The President, in a testy mood, appeared to feel that the people did not yet understand the war. Congressmen, bogged in gloom and desperately trying to save face on their self-pension bill, potshot at each other...
...battle of the Lampoon was won on a hot spring morning. Charge upon charge ascended the flimsy fire escape, repulsed and thrown back, attacking and winning, and then, at last, dispersed to the solitary gloom of their cob-webbed tile dungeon...
World Affairs. All their gloom is apparently not caused by fear that the U.S. is being dragged into war. Interventionist sentiment, for backing England until Hitler is beaten, has increased since October from 51.4% to 54%. Today there are big majorities for using the Navy, the Air Force and even the Army to back up U.S. foreign policy, if necessary...