Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this 'second Rome' . . . This embryo capital, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees; Which second-sighted seers e-v'n now adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn Though naught but woods and Jefferson they see, Where streets should run and sages ought...
...Gloom. There is little that is gloomy or institutional about the camp. Sports are encouraged but never forced. A boy in a wheelchair is pitcher in a softball game; another on crutches plays first base. Most popular sport: swimming, with "hiking"-on crutches or in wheelchairs-a close second. The $80 cost per child [for a two-week stay] is split between the state association and the child's family or sponsor. The beneficial effects of these investments are soon apparent...
Canopus is the second brightest star in the heavens. Last week the Stratocruiser Canopus roared out of the sky onto Washington's National Airport, and out popped Sir Winston Churchill, arriving on an errand which shed only enough light to call attention to the encircling gloom...
...Lagerkvist in his story The Eternal Smile. Winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize for literature, Lagerkvist (age 63) is the author of more than 35 books, including the novels Bar abbas and The Dwarf, and scores of plays, essays and poems. His tone ranges from near-ecstasy to heavy gloom, but in one matter he is always consistent-the conviction that a world that is filled to bursting with pain, joy, bewilderment and dissatisfaction is just what God intended...
Strains & Indecisions. By contrast, the impassive Communists appeared united, tough and confident. The appearance was significant because international conferences frequently turn, not so much on the skill of the particpants, as on the common assessment of the prevailing realities. Does the West's gloom at Geneva accurately take into account the realities of the two great blocs...