Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They moved ahead cautiously in the gloom, and stopped, moved and stopped again. Ahead, a staff sergeant named Stanley Main crouched, groping gently for the trip wires of Chinese mines. He rose, went on, crouched again. Finally the paddies were behind. The ground rose. Trails thinned out. Brush materialized in the darkness. Then, ahead, dim against the glow of the sickly crescent moon, Sergeant Main made out the ridge he was seeking. Nine Marines fanned quietly out to establish a base of fire. Main, a second sergeant with a submachine-gun and two riflemen circled with infinite caution toward...
...January of 1926 Thomas W. Slocum '90, former member of the Board of Overseers, objected to the HGC omitting "Fair Harvard" from New York programs "because the music was not of sufficiently high grade" and suggested the glee club call itself "The Harvard Gloom Club." Woodworth termed the omission "an unfortunate mistake...
...Nazi concentration camps, Schumacher was a walking skeleton, his heart weakened, his eyesight half gone. Suffering lent him stature and magnified his will. To this gaunt, bitter man with the eyes of a Savonarola and a voice not unlike Hitler's, German Socialists rallied in the postwar gloom...
...trends indicate less chance of an armistice than ever before." Van Fleet noted that the Communist army commanders, apparently sharing his view, had "spread out" their front-line forces "to wait out the end of the war." Van Fleet offered a familiar but often disregarded antidote to the poisonous gloom which has settled over Korea: "The best way to win this war is by bringing pressure on the enemy, inflicting more casualties and damage than he can take." Van Fleet sent his soldiers in to capture "Old Baldy," a tactical hill on the west Korean front which has changed hands...
...Gloom hung as heavy as an Iron Curtain over the Communist camp. An official there was asked by reporters what had happened to the big gymnasium scoreboard, which had so proudly blared the Communist winners and their scores. He said the board was still there. A Western reporter slipped inside to look. Someone had erased the scores...