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Word: gloomed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gloom resulting from the team's loss was considerably brightened by the debut of Hardin, who became the second sophomore in 25 years to win his first varsity race. The first was Walt Hewlett '66, and it looks as if the small, unimposing sophomore from Short Hills, N.J., may continue to follow in that former champion's footsteps...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Harriers Lose in Debut Despite Hardin Victory | 9/24/1966 | See Source »

...Australia's brawny arms exactly three times in the past 16 years. And four times the U.S. team went down even before the Challenge Round, including last year, when it lost fo Spain., No one is claiming the silverware this year-not quite yet, anyway. But the gloom is beginning to brighten. Last week, in the American Zone finals in Cleveland, the U.S. walloped a powerful Mexican squad 5-0, and the heroes were a pair of eager youngsters with little or no Davis Cup experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: A Lot of Horses | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...sensitive to such questions, as his beloved broad has just been diagnosed for cancer), who would maybe like to join a way-outfit called the Anti-Death League. This is an intelligent man's nightmare, with the famous Amis wit flickering as an unkindly light amid the encircling gloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Out of the Cold War | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...Rising Gloom. With 60% of the nation's commercial air transport grounded, problems of all kinds continued to grow. In California, servicemen returning from Viet Nam on combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time curled up to sleep on sofas or in makeshift barracks while they waited for hitchhikes aboard military planes passing through the base. Mail deliveries that normally move by air were slowed; shipments of everything from electronic equipment to exotic flowers were delayed for lack of air cargo space. Businessmen hitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Hot-Potato Game | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...Square opens into an alley whose sole illumination is from a giant neon sign which sits on top of a building across the street. The light from the sign changes in color and intensity, sometimes filling the alley with paradesial brightness and sometimes abandoning it to a sullen purple gloom...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Morgan | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

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