Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not know when to shut up, and the reader may be forgiven for receiving glumly the news that still another fictional treatment of homosexualism has been published. And, in the case of Radcliffe, despite a fitful display of considerable writing skill by young British Novelist David Storey, the gloom is justified...
What will come of the world's population explosion? Optimists talk of a limit brought about by voluntary birth control. Pessimists gloom about widespread starvation, plague, or the thinning effect of nuclear war. In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Dr. Hudson Hoagland of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology suggests a third possibility. Nature, he says, has its own subtle systems for choking off excessive breeding...
From behind the eyeglasses of Winter Light and the pervasive gloom of all these characters, the girl who steps out is a natural blonde with bright blue eyes, a large mobile mouth, and a smile that is not quite too cool to be overpowering. She is an actress of prodigious experience who has been in 30 movies and twice as many plays, an accomplished classicist who prompts the purplest critics in the frozen north to write that she "fills every corner of the stage with feminine sovereignty, beauty, sex and nerves-a star shining by its own power without reflection...
...former football coach at the University of Georgia, of trying to fix a football game. Bryant also remembered an earlier Post article claiming that he taught "excessively rough football." Last week the Post's parent Curtis Publishing Co. took a long step toward relieving "Bear" Bryant's gloom. It handed him $300,000 in settlement of two libel actions against the Post...
...fact that once most priests are installed in their parishes, they possess them for life as "parson's freeholds," and they cannot be budged except for heresy, grave crime or the promise of richer livings. As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles. Another fifth can barely keep up with the man-killing spiritual work of fast-growing suburban parishes...