Word: gloom
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...about it. A year ago, East Germany was choking on soft-coal fumes and immobilized by the clutter of failure." Now, he notes, the cities are cleaner, people are driving Volkswagens and buying VCRs, and yet "nobody is happy. Physical shabbiness has been replaced by a palpable psychic gloom." In western Germany, meanwhile, Jackson finds "crabbiness and penny pinching. It is as if achieving their dream of unity and unprecedented security were not worth the price of a third car or second annual vacation...
WORLD: Germany's Gloom...
Like all athletes who continue to play after a championship season, Reilly had to contend with the gloom of falling short of that shining moment. As the losses piled up, Reilly--the Crimson's leader--took them personally. Growing up in the lacrosse hotbed of Long Island, he had never known anything besides winning...
...hard times make people grow, and in the midst of all the gloom, Reilly learned a lot about himself...
...critics point out that high unemployment rates and the overall economic gloom which has descended over Massachusetts are causing voters in recent weeks to reject overrides by overwhelming margins...