Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead of worrying about it, the carioca has invented a game called carioca roulette, in which he climbs into an elevator around shut-off time and takes his chances on making it to his floor. Thousands lose every night, often spending three or four hours in stifling, pitch-black gloom. Not long ago, seven Rio cops hit on a particularly Brazilian solution for ridding Rio of its 17,000 beggars; they began leading the mendigos into a truck, lugging them out to the Guarda River west of the city and drowning them. Did the beggars riot when the scandal broke...
...fielders bemoan the weird bounces from grounders skidding along the infield and the batters complain that they can't see the dirty spheres when they come whirling out of the pitchers' grubby sleeves, but this year the team to a man exudes a tough confidence that transcends the gloom of the Cage...
Workmen shifted the three caskets in the evening gloom, laboring under harsh spotlights. Among the few spectators were Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Boston's Richard Cardi nal Gushing. After a crane lifted the caskets to their new site, Gushing intoned a brief prayer, then wept. So did the Kennedy brothers...
Overall, the picture is spotty-some bright spots, some gloom. But prospects are that for the first time since 1950, Western Europe's automakers will end the year with their first annual production downturn...
While her opponents danced in the streets of Bombay, threw confetti in Calcutta, and held victory parades in Madras, Indira Gandhi retreated into the seclusion of her modest New Delhi bungalow. There was ample reason for gloom. The Congress Party, which has ruled India for 20 years and won elections with clocklike regularity, suffered setbacks in India's fourth general elections that far exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions and imperiled Indira's chances of continuing as Prime Minister...