Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have seen don't lie when they say we are in economic difficulties, and we had better do something about it ... To hear the Republicans' political orators constantly berating those of us who want to look the economic facts in the face as prophets of doom and gloom, you might think the welfare of the nation is for them merely a jolly game of blindman's buff...
...talk about the importance of their Parliaments. I must say that my own Parliament will be very surprised if a question of arms control is considered more important than the concession my government has made to Western unity." With that, Eden called time out, and the delegates recessed in gloom...
...gloom persisted throughout an evening session, in which, confessed a British spokesman harsh words were exchanged." Mendès wanted the Brussels pact powers to control the distribution of U.S. arms aid to Europe. Dulles flatly refused. The Frenchman also insisted that he did not object to the Germans making "submachine guns and cartridges," but did not want them building tanks and planes. At that, the Germans demurred. The usually impeccable Eden emerged from the fourth day's session with his hair ruffled and his face damp with perspiration...
...fear of war, fear of atomic disaster, fear of international catastrophe, fear of depression-false fears, my friends, of tomorrow and of ourselves. Fellow Americans, two years ago the people of this country proved that they will not listen to peddlers of fear. We shall ride forward over their gloom-filled talk and their cynical doubt...
...home, the President said, controls had been lifted, inflation avoided, a sensible farm program and other vital legislation enacted. Then the President came to the meat of his speech. While the Eisenhower program was being passed, he said, "there have been sitting on the sidelines . . . the prophets of gloom and doom...