Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rainy afternoon skies hovered in leaden gloom above the modernistic A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters building on Washington's 16th Street. James Riddle Hoffa, president-elect of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, scissored briskly up to the front entrance. A photographer asked him for just "one cheerful smile." Snapped Jimmy Hoffa cheerlessly: "Don't worry, kid. There'll be lots of them. Nothing has happened...
...that they are in the United States, most of them want to stay. They see only gloom in Hungary's future, and feel that to return there unless it is free is foolish. I don't believe Hungary will be liberated in the near future," says one; "and my decision not to go back springs from an appreciation of the American way of life. Pretty soon I will grow roots here, and I will not want to go back...
...Murrow's look, the look of an intelligent man of good will who has encountered too little cause for joy and too much for gloom-if this look can be described as "hangdog," what a ragtag pack of mongrels inhabits our world today...
...Gloom From Penn...
...little small talk in social conversation. He has an intemperate streak that pushes him beyond sensible limits in poker playing, makes him work 40 hours at a stretch in a projection room or overdo the plowing on his farm. Sometimes in company he drifts off into trancelike gloom. Though he can be an amiable companion to the bottom of the bottle, he has a reserve that keeps his closest friends at arm's length. "I've never had any intimate friends," he once confided. "If I were in serious trouble, I would have trouble knowing where to turn...