Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homer D. Q. Tobit '64 was seen reading Kafka's The Castle in Lamont Library. At 11:24 he glanced out the window of the third level reading room. By 11:25 he had deposited his reading fare in a nearby receptacle, forgotten Humanities 119, and left the tomblike gloom of the library with the comment, "I am going to participate in the rebirth of the land...
...architects or at least co-designers of the Atlantic alliance, U.S. policymakers were plunged into gloom. "Most unfortunate," said the State Department. In Congress there were revived mutterings about the inefficacy of foreign aid and the ingratitude of allies. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright talked of the "temporary aberration" of the man. A nation that had hoped to be in a position to profit from the Communist split between Russia and Red China found a deep crevice opening at its feet. And though the Kennedy Administration did not speak of an "agonizing reappraisal" of its relations with a recalcitrant France...
Verses like this, which today would hardly cause a raised eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...
...last entries were made in the ledger, and the Magazine Publishers Association closed its books on 1962. The arithmetic was impressive. Despite all the gloom criers, reported the M.P.A. last week, the nation's magazines logged their best year yet. Total ad revenue was up 5.4% over 1961, to nearly $876 million...
Picking out an old Michael Innes, Gridley took the elevator down to Level D, struggled with the vault-like door and issued into the moderate gloom that enshrouds Sections HunL, Oc and Ind (Hungarian Literature, Oceania and Indic Studies). Gridley chuckled sardonically as he walked through the country's largest Hindi collection, musing that Harvard didn't teach the language. Finally he reached his destination, Ang and F. Ang means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold...