Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started reversing the policies that had caused the U.S. to fall behind in the struggle for technological superiority. "More decisions have been made in the Pentagon in the last six weeks than in the last six years," cried Texas' Lyndon Johnson. Said Pundit Stewart Alsop in an otherwise gloom-ridden column last week: "It begins to seem possible that the soap industry has miraculously given this lucky country a first-rate Secretary of Defense...
...lover; they resent the mistress--she has the capacity, shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such consciously doomed insects didn't commit suicide long ago is never clear...
Nevertheless, the film is superbly convincing in its panoramas and crowd shots and in some fine scenes of young, nonviolent love. For the first time in memory, a New England town is filmed with neither the whales-and-ale quaintness of a picture postcard nor the brooding gloom of an H. P. Lovecraft horror story. Camden, Me. (chosen for the film setting because Gilmanton, N.H., where Novelist Metalious wrote the book, does not look the part) is prim, bleak or beautiful, but never stagy, and the townsfolk extras look and act like people. What is even rarer, so do most...
...than the realization. When the production cuts finally started, the nation's mood gradually turned from nail-biting to cool appraisal. The quick shift in sentiment was clear on Wall Street, which for a change accurately reflected business opinion through 1957. In January and February, when the first gloom-sayers gave tongue, stocks tumbled 44 points to 454.82 on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Later, when it became apparent that the initial pessimism was overdone, the market soared to within only a quarter of a point of the alltime 521.05 high reached in 1956. Then in October, with...
...matter of fact, it's good." The facts showed that business, moving at historically high levels, was indeed far better (see below) than business sentiment. Yet Wall Street, which likes to talk of the investor's lack of knowledge, could blame itself for much of the gloom. From brokerage offices have poured forth a flood of market letters, rumors and reports that painted the current economic picture in unwarrantedly pessimistic colors...