Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revelers saw their offspring divided up into three groups indiscriminate of sex and given over to counsellors. Thus relieved, parents whirled off to shed the gloom of their graduation-birth...
...surrender this week of Luis Taruc, leader of the Philippine Communist guerrillas (see FOREIGN NEWS), flared like a match in a darkened amphitheater. For the past month anti-Communist forces in Asia had suffered defeat-defeat that culminated in, but has not necessarily ended at, Dienbienphu. In the gloom of Geneva, Britain, France and the U.S. have groped for a settlement with the Communists in Indo-China and Korea, and in their groping made the Communist position stronger. Taruc's personal surrender was a desperately needed light...
...rising storm whipped at the banners of Dwight Eisenhower's crusade. From Tonkin to Geneva last week, the atmosphere was charged with gloom, defeatism, suspicion among allies. In Washington the determined Republican efforts to contain the McCarthy-Army hearings failed, and new thunderheads spread over the Department of Justice and the White House itself...
...that tends increasingly toward gloom, horror and mathematical coldness in art, the painter who makes a critical success with warm and happy pictures is an exception. Such an artist is Vytautas Kasiulis, 36, a refugee from Lithuania, whose one-man show in Paris last week was a solid hit with critics and buyers alike...
...last six months, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has bought three of his paintings. The pictures in last week's show were also selling well, at around $200 each, and the critics enthusiastically hailed Kasiulis as an oasis of joy in a desert of gloom and pessimism...