Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...utter gloom that followed the vote, the Knowland forces freely predicted that there would be no civil rights legislation this session. Reason: the House, which passed a tough bill 286 to 126, would never agree to the watered-down Senate version. And even if it did, Dwight Eisenhower would be virtually forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures...
Shibboleths & Shenanigans. A more serious flaw in business reporting is the deep-rooted aversion of most business editors to controversy, gloom or criticism-in tacit cahoots with the managerial mentality that believes that the private lives of corporations should be immune from the irreverent scrutiny to which the press routinely subjects politics, government and the boudoir antics of showfolk. "Business too often takes the attitude that the press must cooperate or be guilty of an antibusiness attitude," says the Chicago Sun-Times's deep-digging Financial Editor Austin Wehrwein, who frequently writes columns on the mythical Pfutzer Foundry & Finished...
...company purchasing agents, whose job is to gauge whether prices will go up or down. Last week at their annual meeting in Atlantic City, the purchasing agents arrived at a verdict of "cautious optimism" about business. Though few saw a sharp rise ahead, even fewer saw any reason for gloom. The majority agreed with Economist Martin R. Gainsbrugh of the National Industrial Conference Board, who saw signs of a modest business upturn in the second half of 1957. Said Gainsbrugh: "Total business activity is considerably stronger than would appear from a quick glance at the figures...
...villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...
Much of the gloom has come from the financial pages of the daily papers, whose headlines tend to magnify any slowdown out of all proportion. One day last week, for example, the downbeat Wall Street Journal filled its front page with news of lower auto production, a reduction in electric power use, reports of low earnings and reduced dividends by four companies. Buried in the back pages were the first-quarter reports of 58 other companies, half of which had higher, or record, earnings. The same pessimism is shown by many other financial reporters. When University of Illinois Economist...