Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results cast gloom over a session of the Socialist Party executive committee, which met last week in West Berlin to name a successor to the late Party Chairman Erich Ollenhauer. After two hours of desultory discussion over coffee and Johannisbeersaft (currant juice), they picked the only candidate for the job, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. He faces a tough job. As one Socialist leader candidly put it: "The boom goes on. People are more prosperous than ever, and they identify prosperity with Erhard...
...bright spot in the midst of all the gloom is the team's captain, Gene Dressler. Against Dartmouth last week Dressler accounted for over half of the Yardlings' total score by putting in 36 points. Throughout the year he has consistently been the team's high scorer...
...Free City of Berlin"-pet phrases of both Ulbricht and Nikita Khrushchev aimed at eroding Allied rights in Berlin. But whatever the Communists' motives, the holiday pass agreement clearly proved most erosive on their own side of the Wall. To East Berliners, who had been chafing in the gloom of empty shops and echoing streets, the sight of bright, gift-laden visitors seared like acid. West Berliners found their Eastern kin far more outspoken against the Ulbricht regime than they had been before the Wall went up. In fact, workers at East Berlin's municipal transport company...
...weather was balmy and bright in Los Angeles, but a fog of gloom sometimes seemed to invade the Association of American Law Schools convention held there last week. Amid the many speeches and panel discussions, two somber questions recurred several times: Is the legal profession in the U.S. getting only barely passing grades in professional ethics? And is it flunking in social responsibilities...
...preholiday week went on, the mood swung between exhilaration and gloom. Having threatened to torpedo the Common Market, Charles de Gaulle kept up the pressure by telling a visitor: "After all, we could always be a large Switzerland"-a reference to the separate path that France could take. But the spur of a deadline and the ministers' eagerness to get home in time for a peaceful Christmas produced some compromises in Brussels...